Chapter 1 test !!
During the early days of business growth, many sold or bartered products from their homes in what became known as:
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Customers and clients |
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Cottage industries |
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The service sector |
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Montgomery Ward |
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Technology has not affected jobs in which of the following ways:
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Quantity of jobs created |
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Distribution of jobs |
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Fewer professionals to design systems |
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Quality of jobs |
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Telephone sales and product support services can easily be handled by a customer:
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Visiting the main office |
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Calling a designated 800 number |
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Being relocated to another branch |
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Being put on hold while service is searched |
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According to the US Census figures for 2000:
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50.5 percent of US households have and use Internet access |
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The use of e-mail is declining rapidly |
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A small percentage uses search engines |
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The use of the Internet is down from 1998 figures |
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A term applied to an ongoing trend of information, knowledge and resource sharing around the world is:
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Networking |
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Telecommuting |
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Globalization |
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Deregulation |
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Prime-age workers are classified by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as those between the ages of:
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50-68 |
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16-24 |
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55 and older |
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25-54 |
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A type of business that is independently owned and operated and is not dominant in its field of operation is a:
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Small business |
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Large corporation |
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Entrepreneur |
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Middle-management operation |
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Surfing the Net for goods has coined a new term in technology for accessing goods and services called:
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E-commerce |
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B2B |
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SBA |
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Y2K |
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Summaries that condense current business publications to a three- or four-page synopsis of key points are:
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Executive book summaries |
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Book reports |
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Executive summaries or abstracts |
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Personal shopping guides |
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The event that worried all computer systems people on December 31, 1999, was aptly called the
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SBA |
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B2B |
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Y2K |
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Asian Beatle |
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The customer service environment is made up of six components of which customer, organizational culture, human resources, products/deliverables and delivery systems comprise five. The sixth component is:
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The computer |
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The building plans |
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Service |
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Management |
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Employees of other departments or branches, coworkers and other people who work within the same organization are:
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External customers |
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Internal customers |
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Online customers |
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Current customers |
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Those who actively seek out, research and buy, rent or lease products or services offered by a business are its:
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External customers or clients |
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Internal customers |
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Online customers only |
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Call center personnel |
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The two potential areas of customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction about a deliverable are:
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Price and taxes |
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Earnings ratio or profit |
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Quality and quantity |
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Color and style |
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When one applies for a job, those who take care in recruiting, selecting and training of qualified people may be called:
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Human resources |
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The employment group |
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Applicants |
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Customers |
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The frontline service representatives, the standard bearers for an organization, who set the tone for how others view the organization, are the:
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Data entry/order clerks |
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Service technicians |
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Members of management |
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Receptionist/front desk clerks |
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Employees who perform telemarketing service need strong self-confidence and other personal skills because of the:
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Low salary they receive |
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Number of rejections to offers and irate calls they receive |
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Lack of training usually offered |
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Lack of up-to-date equipment and training |
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Simply stated, the manner in which you and other employees treat your customers and each other as you deliver your company's product(s) or other deliverables is known as:
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Outsourcing |
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Education and training |
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Service |
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The competition |
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A term which describes an organization that uses knowledge as a competitive advantage is:
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A learning organization |
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The Fifth Discipline |
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Networking |
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A cottage industry |
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A concept in which employees can act without asking first for management intervention to resolve a customer issue is called:
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A learning organization |
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Service recovery |
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Networking |
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Outsourcing |