MGT 101 Principles of Management Review Assessment: Midterm Exam

   Question 1    
    XYZ college wants to deliver quality education to prepare its students for both continuing education and the work environment. This is an example of a/an:            
                
   Question 2    
    The fourth step in the strategy management process is:            
     
           
   Question 3    
    Which of the following is NOT one of the five steps of strategy management?            
     
           
   Question 4    
    In strategic planning, managers try to determine what their organization should do to be successful:            
     
           
   Question 5    
    An SBU with a small market share of a high-growth market is a:            
     
           
   Question 6    
    The document that is written by management and describes the purpose for which the organization exists is the:            
     
           
   Question 7    
    Which level of the organization's environment includes planning, organizing, influencing, and controlling within the organization?            
     
           
   Question 8    
    The strategy development tool that matches internal organizational strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and threats is:            
     
           
   Question 9    
    With the GE Multifactor Portfolio Matrix, the businesses falling in the cells that form a diagonal from lower left to upper right are:            
     
           
   Question 10    
    A broad and general plan developed to reach long-term organizational objectives is:            
     
           
   Question 11    
    Which of the following strategy formulation tools outlines the primary forces that determine competitiveness within an industry and illustrates how those forces are related?            
     
           
   Question 12    
    An organization that takes the entire world as their business arena is:            
     
           
   Question 13    
    If Joe is a citizen of Sri Lanka and he lives and works for a company in Brazil, he would most likely be considered a/an:            
     
           
   Question 14    
    The two most difficult challenges that apply to expatriates and third-country nationals are:            
     
           
   Question 15    
    The total characteristics of a given group of people and their environment is:            
     
           
   Question 16    
    Normally, managers who make foreign investments expect such investments will do all of the following EXCEPT:            
     
           
   Question 17    
    International management is:            
     
           
   Question 18    
    A company that operates essentially within a single country is a/an:            
     
           
   Question 19    
    Which of the following is the most accurate statement?            
     
           
   Question 20    
    If a company in Israel grants its rights to a brand distributor in the United States, the Israeli company has entered into:            
     
           
   Question 21    
    Our multinational company hires the best managers for our operations, regardless of the location of those managers. We practice which approach to hiring?            
     
           
   Question 22    
    Organization members who are citizens of the country where the facility of a foreign-based organization is located are:            
     
           
   Question 23    
    Acting in such a way that the action taken under the circumstances could be a universal law, or rule, of behavior would best define which of the following ethical standards?            
     
           
   Question 24    
    All of the following are true concerning business ethics EXCEPT:            
     
           
   Question 25    
    The best-known argument against business performing socially responsible activities is proposed by:            
     
           
   Question 26    
    All the individuals and groups that are directly or indirectly affected by an organization's decisions are its:            
     
           
   Question 27    
    During phase 1 of the process of converting social responsibility policy into action, staff specialists be:            
     
           
   Question 28    
    The federal agency that regulates safety and health conditions in non-governmental jobs is:            
     
           
   Question 29    
    The utilitarian principle means:            
     
           
   Question 30    
    According to the flowchart identified in the text, for managers to achieve and maintain a high level of social responsiveness within an organization, they should pursue:            
     
           
   Question 31    
    All of the following are propositions for the Davis Model of Corporate Social Responsibility EXCEPT:            
     
           
   Question 32    
    The federal agency that investigates and reconciles employment discrimination complaints based on race, sex, or creed is:            
     
Selected Answer:        [None Given]
Correct Answer:        the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Feedback:    See Primary Functions of Several Federal Agencies That Enforce Social Responsibility Legislation
           
   Question 33    
    The social obligation approach to meeting social obligations proposes that business:            
     
           
   Question 34    
    Scientific management can be broken down into two distinct areas. Which of the following researchers would not be considered a major contributor to the lower-level management analysis area of scientific management?            
     
           
   Question 35    
    Triangular management is a management approach that emphasizes using information from:            
     
           
   Question 36    
    An organization that emphasizes systematic problem solving, experimenting with new ideas, and learning from past experiences and the experiences of others is referred to as a/an:            
     
           
   Question 37    
    The original purpose of the relay assembly test room experiment portion of the Hawthorne Studies was to:            
     
           
   Question 38    
    Which scientific management contributor advocated a bonus system if workers exceeded their daily production?            
     
Selected Answer:        [None Given]
Correct Answer:        Henry Gantt
Feedback:    See Lower-Level Management Analysis
           
   Question 39    
    The purpose of the bank wiring observation room experiment portion of the Hawthorne Studies was to:            
     
           
   Question 40     1 out of 1 points  
    Which of the following researchers would not be considered a major contributor to the classical approach to management?            
     
           
   Question 41    
    Of the following scientific management contributors, which would be considered as being the most concerned with the human side of production?            
     
           
   Question 42     1 out of 1 points  
    The primary limitation of the Classical Approach is that:            
     
           
   Question 43    
    "The Father of Scientific Management" is:            
     
           
   Question 44    
    An organization that interacts with its environment is a/an:            
     
           
   Question 45    
    The Classical Approach has been criticized as not placing enough emphasis on all of the following areas EXCEPT:            
     
           
   Question 46    
    When managers gather information that measures recent performance within the organization, then compare present performance to established performance standards, and then try to find new ways of improving production through organizational modifications, they are performing:            
     
           
   Question 47    
    All the assets available for activation during normal operations are:            
     
           
   Question 48    
    Government statistics show that management positions have:            
     
           
   Question 49    
    Nick is 29 years old and has just been promoted from salesperson to sales manager for his company. Nick is most likely in which stage of his career?            
     
           
   Question 50    
    According to Katz, which of the following skills is important for successful management performance?            
     
           
   Question 51    
    According to the concept of the Universality of Management:            
     
           
   Question 52    
    When Peters and Waterman recommend that organizations "stick to their knitting," they are really recommending that organizations:            
     
           
   Question 53    
    When a manager achieves assigned organizational objectives without wasting organizational resources, that manager is:            
     
           
   Question 54    
    Managerial skills involving the ability to build cooperation within the team being led are termed:            
     
           
   Question 55    
    The management skill that is most important for lower (supervisory) levels of management is:            
     
           
   Question 56    
    Which of the following is a definition of the term management?            
     
           
   Question 57    
    Perceptions about the sexes based on what society believes are appropriate behaviors for men and women are:            
     
           
   Question 58    
    The six key strategies raised by the Hudson Institute report for modern managers suggest:            
     
           
   Question 59    
    Which of Donaldson's stages of managing a diverse workforce is a manager in when he or she learns how to interact with diverse groups and cultures by deliberately thinking about how to behave?            
     
           
   Question 60    
    Being one of a very few members of a group in an organization is:            
     
           
   Question 61    
    When a majority group member experiences inequities as a result of programs designed to help underrepresented groups it is called:            
     
           
   Question 62    
    According to the Hudson Institute report:            
     
           
   Question 63    
    The belief that one's own group, culture, country, or customers are superior to others is:            
     
           
   Question 64    
    The approach to cultural diversity that most closely parallels affirmative action policies is:            
     
           
   Question 65    
    The assimilation approach to cultural diversity:            
     
           
   Question 66    
    Having too many expectations to comfortably fulfill is termed:            
     
           
   Question 67    
    Which approach to cultural diversity focuses on how interpersonal skills and attitudinal changes relate to organizational performance, and is also the most effective approach to pluralism?            
     
           
   Question 68    
    In the stages of the product life cycle, which stage typically follows the maturity stage?            
     
           
   Question 69    
    A relatively formal sales forecasting method that gathers, evaluates, and summarizes expert opinions as the basis for the forecast is the:            
     
           
   Question 70    
    The key organizational forecast is the:            
     
           
   Question 71    
    A straightforward method of predicting future sales levels primarily by asking appropriate managers within the organization to give their opinions on what will happen to sales in the future is:            
     
           
   Question 72    
    Standing plans and single-use plans are examples of which dimension in planning?            
     
           
   Question 73    
    Which stage of the product life cycle do competitors entering the market at a slower rate than before characterize, although sales are still climbing?            
     
           
   Question 74    
    Programs and budgets are:            
     
           
   Question 75    
    Which scheduling tool is normally used to schedule production inputs such as human resources and machinery?            
     
           
   Question 76    
    Which of the following types of plans would be considered a single-use plan?            
     
           
   Question 77    
    Which of the following would generally NOT be an objective resulting from human resource planning?            
     
           
   Question 78    
    Planning in the areas of plant facilities and human resources is:            
     
           
   Question 79    
    All of the following are methods of evaluating the planner EXCEPT:            
     
           
   Question 80    
    Which of the following is a disadvantage of planning?            
     
           
   Question 81    
    The fundamental purpose of planning is:            
     
           
   Question 82    
    The process of determining how the organization can get where it wants to go is:            
     
           
   Question 83    
    Henry is a manager in our company. He has been assigned a set of objectives to achieve, and knows that his performance appraisal depends upon their attainment. He will be rewarded depending upon how close he comes to achieving his goals. This management approach is called:            
     
           
   Question 84    
    The final responsibility for organizational planning rests with the:            
     
           
   Question 85    
    A system created as part of the overall management system is a:            
     
           
   Question 86    
    A management guideline that recommends managers clearly determine, understand, and state organizational objectives before they initiate any action is:            
     
           
   Question 87    
    Which of the following is a suggested basis for evaluating the performance of the organizational planner?            
     
           
   Question 88    
    The most important input in the planning subsystem is the:            
     
           
   Question 89    
    The targets toward which an open management system is directed are:            
     
           
   Question 90    
    An organizational decision-maker who is willing to steal the ideas necessary to make good decisions has what type of decision-making orientation?            
     
           
   Question 91    
    The ideal decision maker:            
     
           
   Question 92    
    The steps the decision-maker takes to be able to choose between alternatives is:            
     
           
   Question 93    
    One of the primary disadvantages of reaching decisions through consensus is:            
     
           
   Question 94    
    Programmed decisions are:            
     
           
   Question 95    
    Which of the following statements is most accurate?            
     
           
   Question 96    
    Decision-makers who feel they are commodities and are only as valuable as the decisions they make would most likely be classified as:            
     
           
   Question 97    
    The group decision-making process that involves the circulation of questionnaires among group members is known as:            
     
           
   Question 98    
    In order to select the most beneficial alternative, managers should:            
     
           
   Question 99    
    Most managerial decisions are made under conditions of:            
     
           
   Question 100    
    Assume a manager has assigned the authority to make a decision to a group and has asked for consensus. If the group is unable to reach consensus, the manager should: