Management Quiz 1
Which of the following is a reason teamwork can be more satisfying than traditional work?
All of these are reasons why teamwork can be more satisfying than traditional work.
Virtual teams ____.
Are very flexible
____ is the measure of the intensity of competitive behavior between companies in an industry.
Character of the rivalry
Which of the following statements regarding cohesiveness is true?
Cohesive groups have lower turnover.
Which of the following statements about portfolio strategy is true?
Dysfunctional consequences can occur when companies are categorized
Which of the following statements about social responsibility is true?
Economic and legal responsibilities play a larger role in a company's social responsibility than do ethical and discretionary responsibilities.
Which of the following statements about ethics is true?
Ethics is the set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group
According to some industrial psychologists, Performance = Motivation ´ Ability.
False
According to the stakeholder model of social responsibility, no stakeholder groups are more or less important than any other.
False
As a leader behavior, consideration refers to the extent to which leaders do what they said they would do.
False
Benchmarking is the process of setting corporate norms.
False
Cohesiveness refers to the extent to which members of a team are experiencing job satisfaction.
False
Companies face very little uncertainty in their strategic business environments.
False
Companies will be considered unethical if they do not perform their discretionary responsibilities.
False
Conceptual skills are most important for lower-level managers.
False
Concurrent control seeks to prevent or minimize performance deficiencies before they occur.
False
Control loss usually has no affect on goal achievement.
False
Developing a vision and mission statement is the sole responsibility of middle management.
False
First-line managers are responsible for setting objectives consistent with organizational goals and planning and implementing subunit strategies for achieving these objectives.
False
Global new ventures bring a good or service to market in one foreign market at a time.
False
Goal specificity is the extent to which a goal is hard or challenging to accomplish.
False
If retrenchment works, it is typically followed by a stability strategy.
False
Management by objectives is a two-step process in which managers and their employees discuss possible goals and then meet regularly to review progress toward the accomplishment of those goals.
False
Most companies compete directly with all the firms in their industry.
False
One of the disadvantages of project teams is their lack of flexibility.
False
Planning is a three-step process which involves first setting goals, next developing effective action plans, and finally tracking progress toward goal achievement.
False
Punishment is also called avoidance learning.
False
S.M.A.R.T. goals are Specific, Meaningful, Active, Reachable, and Timely.
False
Since teams should be an end in themselves, it is appropriate to use them in most situations.
False
Strategic leadership is defined as the ability to think strategically and create a strategic plan for an organization.
False
Team normalization represents the differences in ability, experience, personality, or any other factor on a team.
False
Teams do not perform any better when offered extrinsic rewards.
False
The balanced scorecard approach to control emphasizes measurement of organizational performance in three equally important areas. These areas are finances, internal operations, and innovation and learning.
False
The basic components of equity theory are outcomes, instrumentality, and valence.
False
The greater the market commonality, the less intense the direct competition between two companies.
False
The level of agreement on whether behavior is good or bad is defined as the level of ethical acceptance.
False
The most common type of training provided to members of work teams is training in leadership skills.
False
The number one mistake made by managers who were derailed from their fast track up the managerial ranks was that they didn't develop the necessary technical skills.
False
The only dimension needed to measure quality is conformance to expectations.
False
The only kinds of adaptive strategies are defending, analyzing, and reacting.
False
The organization's vision must regularly change to adapt to changes in the environment over time.
False
The stakeholder model holds that the only social responsibility that businesses have is to maximize profits.
False
The term excessive value appropriated (EVA) refers to the amount by which profits (after expenses) exceed the cost of capital in a given year.
False
The three levels of waste minimization are waste disposal, waste reduction, and recycling.
False
The two approaches to maintaining flexibility in organizations while they plan are outcome-based planning and change-based planning.
False
There are four decisional roles. They are entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator, and spokesperson.
False
There is general agreement regarding what is socially responsible corporate behavior.
False
Top managers are the managers responsible for facilitating team activities toward goal accomplishment.
False
When companies are performing above or better than their strategic reference points, top management is more likely to choose a daring, risk-taking strategy.
False
When conducting global business, companies should attempt to identify the two types of political risk, which are political uncertainty and economic uncertainty.
False
While good management is basic to starting and growing a business, once some measure of success has been achieved, good management becomes less important.
False
Which of the following is an example of a situational theory of leadership?
Fiedler's contingency theory
Which of the following types of global organization is most likely to suffer problems associated with being culture bound?
Franchising
____ are both examples of cooperative contracts.
Franchising and licensing
The basic model of ethical decision making ____.
Is not accurately described by any of these.
Which of the following statements about the Strategic Reference Point Theory is true?
None of these statements about the Strategic Reference Point Theory is true.
Which of the following is NOT one of the rules for effective brainstorming?
Select an open-minded group leader.
Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of S.M.A.R.T. goals?
Synergistic
One of the major questions that a company must typically answer once it has decided to go global is ____.
To what extent should the company standardize or adapt business procedures?
A joint venture is an example of a strategic alliance.
True
A management study discovered that companies which invest in their people will create long-term competitive advantages difficult for other companies to duplicate.
True
According to expectancy theory, instrumentality is strong when employees believe that improved performance will lead to better and more rewards.
True
An intrinsic reward is a reward associated with performing a task or activity for its own sake.
True
As described in the path-goal theory, directive leadership is similar to the key leadership behavior of initiating structure.
True
Both proximal and distal goals are used to provide additional motivation and rewards for employees.
True
Companies use their resources to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
True
Control is achieved when behavior and work procedures conform to standards and company goals are accomplished.
True
Cross-functional teams are purposefully composed of employees from different functional areas of the organization.
True
Customs classification is a non-tariff trade barrier. It is important to international marketers because the category assigned by customs agents can affect the size of the tariff and the impact of import quotas.
True
Different businesses often need different combinations of global consistency and local adaptation.
True
Ethics is the set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group.
True
Fiedler's contingency theory states that in order to maximize work group performance, leaders must be matched to the situation that best fits their leadership style.
True
For goal-setting theory to motivate employees, managers must provide frequent, specific, performance-related feedback.
True
For planning to be effective, workers need a specific, challenging goal as well as regular feedback to track their progress.
True
For punishment to work, the punishment must be strong enough to stop the undesired behavior and must be administered objectively, impersonally, consistently and contingently, and quickly.
True
From a competitive standpoint, resource similarity means that the strategic actions your company takes can probably be matched by your direct competitors.
True
In a multinational company, managers at company headquarters may value global consistency as a company policy over local adaptation because global consistency simplifies decision-making at corporate headquarters.
True
In many industries, teams are growing in importance because they help organizations respond to specific problems and challenges.
True
In the decision-making process, teams can do a much better job than individuals in defining the problem and generating alternative solutions.
True
It would be safe to say that, while it sometimes pays to be socially responsible, at other times socially responsible behavior can create significant costs.
True
Leadership is the process of influencing others to achieve group or organizational goals.
True
Middle managers are typically responsible for coordinating and linking groups, departments, and divisions within a company.
True
Motivation is the set of forces that initiates, directs, and makes people persist in their efforts to accomplish a goal.
True
Multinational corporations are corporations that own businesses in two or more countries.
True
Portfolio strategy is a corporate-level strategy that minimizes risk by diversifying investment among various businesses or product lines.
True
Stakeholders are people or groups with an interest in a company's actions.
True
Tactical plans specify how a company will use resources, budgets, and people to accomplish specific goals within its mission.
True
Team leaders are responsible for managing both internal team relationships and external relationships with other teams, departments, and divisions in a company.
True
The categories of social responsibility for a company are economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary
True
The control process begins when managers set goals.
True
The first step in establishing an ethical climate in a company is for managers to act ethically themselves.
True
The last stage of team development, where decline is complete, is the de-forming stage.
True
The normative decision theory helps leaders decide how much employee participation should be used when making decisions.
True
The objective control approach to managerial control manifests itself as either behavior control or output control.
True
The term decision making is used to refer to the process of choosing a solution from available alternatives.
True
The three positioning strategies are cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
True
The three strategies used to minimize or to adapt to the political risk inherent to global business are avoidance, control, and cooperation.
True
The two kinds of cooperative contracts are licensing and franchising.
True
The two kinds of inequity are underreward and overreward.
True
There is no such thing as a "best" leadership style for all situations and employees.
True
Transformational leadership is leadership that generates awareness and acceptance of a group's purpose and mission and gets employees to see beyond their own needs and self-interest for the good of the group.
True
Two factors that help companies determine the growth potential of foreign markets are purchasing power and foreign competitors.
True
Upper-level managers may actually spend more time dealing with people than lower-level managers.
True
Whereas managers tend to have a short-term perspective, leaders tend to have a long-term perspective.
True
While transformational leaders use visionary and inspirational appeals to influence followers, transactional leadership is based on an exchange process.
True
What is social responsibility?
a business' obligation to pursue policies, make decisions, and take actions that benefit society
Which of the following is an advantage associated with the use of project teams?
all of these
Which of the following management practices can be used by an organization that wants to create a competitive advantage through its employees?
all of these
Successful business leaders are not like other people. Successful business leaders ____.
are accurately described by all of these
Managers can motivate employees to increase their efforts by ____.
asking employees what their needs are then matching rewards to those needs
The first step in the strategy-making process is to ____.
assess the need for strategic change
The two types of objective controls managers use are ____.
behavior and output controls
Companies may determine standards by ____.
benchmarking other companies
The achievement of stretch goals is made easier when the team members have ____.
bureaucratic immunity
How are organizations using teams to help increase customer satisfaction?
by creating problem-solving teams to study ways to improve customer satisfaction and make recommendations for improvements
How do employees try to restore equity when they perceive that they have been treated unfairly?
by doing any of these
Which skills increase in their importance to success as managers rise through the managerial ranks?
conceptual skills and the motivation to manage
Which of the following is another term for initiating structure leadership behavior?
concern for production
____ control is a method of gathering information about performance deficiencies as they occur.
concurrent
The three basic control methods are ____.
concurrent control, feedback control, and feedforward control
A manager engaged in the management function of ____ is monitoring progress toward goal achievement and taking corrective action when needed.
controlling
The primary disadvantage of using wholly owned affiliates as the means of entering a foreign market is ____.
costs
The ____ is purposefully composed of employees from different functional areas of the organization.
cross-functional team
____ is the process of choosing a solution from available alternatives.
decision making
____ is a method of investment in which a company builds a new business or buys an existing business in a foreign country.
direct foreign investment
According to the path-goal theory of leadership, ____ involves letting employees know precisely what is expected of them, giving them specific guidelines for performing tasks, scheduling work, setting standards of performance, and making sure that people follow standard rules and regulations.
directive leadership
While ____ are tangible, ____ are not.
distinctive competencies; core capabilities
For the goal-setting theory to work, goals must ____.
do all of these
Middle managers typically:
do all of these
To encourage more ethical decision making in an organization, managers should ____.
do all of these
One of the benefits of planning is how it ____.
does none of these
A country or region that has an attractive business climate for companies that want to go global has ____.
easy access to growing markets
A manager striving to improve organizational ____ is accomplishing tasks that help fulfill organizational objectives.
effectiveness
First-line managers will most likely have to:
encourage, monitor, and reward the performances of their employees
Feedback can lead to stronger motivation and effort if it
encourages employees to set higher, more difficult goals after the initial goals are accomplished.
The most popular approach to increasing goal commitment is ____.
encouraging workers' participation in goal setting
A top manager for a management consulting firm would:
establish a positive organizational culture that encourages employees to be passionate about their clients
Quality is typically defined and measured in three ways. They are ____.
excellence, value, and conformance to expectations
Extrinsic rewards are ____.
exemplified by bonuses, trophies, and plaques
In expectancy theory, ____ is the perceived relationship between effort and performance.
expectancy
The balanced scorecard approach to control ____.
forces managers at each level of the company to set specific goals and measure performance in each of four areas
Process modification, material/product substitution, and ____ are the three strategies used for waste prevention and reduction.
good housekeeping
The two major approaches to corporate-level strategy are ____.
grand strategies and the portfolio strategy
McDonald's uses a ____ strategy (a kind of grand strategy) as it increases its profits in France by offering uniquely French products such as Croque McDo, the McDonald's version of a popular French grilled sandwich.
growth
For options-based planning to work, the organization must ____.
have slack resources
The normative decision theory ____.
helps leaders decide how much employee participation should be used when making decisions
Which of the following traits refers to the extent to which leaders are truthful with others?
honesty
A manager who wants to use reinforcement theory to motivate workers should first ____.
identify critical performance-related behavior
Which of the following is a major concern of leaders (as opposed to managers)?
inspiring and motivating others
Which of the following is NOT a step in the management by objectives (MBO) process?
jointly develop operational plans
Effective managers define ____ as the process of influencing others to achieve group or organizational goals.
leadership
An expatriate is someone who ____.
lives and works outside his or her own country
Economic value added (EVA) is so important because it ____.
makes managers at all levels pay much closer attention to how they run their segment of the business
____ is defined as getting work done through others.
management
Who is responsible for the creation of tactical plans?
middle managers
The three components of ____ are initiation of effort, direction of effort, and persistence of effort.
motivation
All of the following are important factors in the creation of an ethical business climate EXCEPT ____.
official approval of a company's ethics code by government regulators
There are three kinds of ____ plans. They are single-use plans, standing plans, and budgets.
operational
According to ____, leaders need to make clear how followers can achieve organizational goals, take care of problems that prevent followers from achieving goals, and then find more and varied rewards to motivate followers who achieve those goals.
path-goal theory
What are the two types of political risk that affect companies conducting global business?
political uncertainty and policy uncertainty
The three stages of moral development identified by Kohlberg are ____.
preconventional level, conventional level, postconventional level
The two general categories of stakeholders are ____ stakeholders and ____ stakeholders.
primary and secondary
Which of the following factors helps a company determine the growth potential of a foreign market?
purchasing power
A(n) ____ resource is a resource that is not controlled or possessed by many competing firms.
rare
Which of the following is a basic component of equity theory?
referents
An organization that has ____ has the assets, capabilities, processes, information, and knowledge that an organization uses to improve its effectiveness and efficiency, to create and sustain competitive advantage, and to fulfill a need or solve a problem.
resources
Transactional leaders ____.
reward followers for good behavior and punish followers for poor behavior
the highest level of team autonomy is found in:
self-designing teams
Which of the following typically is NOT performed by top managers?
setting objectives consistent with organizational goals or planning and implementing subunit strategies for achieving these objectives
An organization that rewards its team members through gainsharing is ____.
sharing the financial value of performance gains
Which of the following is a mechanism used to examine external threats and opportunities facing a firm as well as its internal strengths and weaknesses?
situational analysis
Ethical intensity depends on all of the following EXCEPT ____.
social commitment
____ is one of the disadvantages associated with the use of work teams.
social loafing
Which of the following statements about social responsibility and economic performance is true?
social responsibility can sometime create significant costs for a company
The two general kinds of trade barriers are ____.
tariff barriers and nontariff barriers
Which type of skills tends to be most important to the success of lower-level managers?
technical skills
The basic control process begins with ____.
the establishment of clear standards of performance
An often overlooked factor in determining the cost of control is ____.
unintended consequences that accompany increased control
According to the expectancy theory, ____ affect the conscious choices that people make about their motivation.
valence, expectancy, and instrumentality
Which of the following is one of the six steps in the rational decision-making process?
weight the criteria