Some economic environments of business include resource and product
markets, language, religion, and per capita income.
Because of cheap labor, most international business firms are
headquartered in the less developed countries of Asia and South America.
Entrepreneurship refers to the process of initiating a business venture,
gathering and organizing the appropriate resources, and assuming the
associated risks and rewards.
Globalization and increased competition give an advantage to the flexibility
and fast response large business can offer rather than to small companies.
The company’s philosophy as well as purpose is often expressed in mission
statements.
Strategic plans and goals are those that focus on where the organization
wants to be in the future and pertain to the organization as a whole.
Divestiture means selling of a business unit for the cash value of the assets,
thus terminating its existence.
According to the BCG Matrix, the question mark exists in a new, rapidly
growing industry but has only a small market share.
Extreme competitiveness, impatience, aggressiveness, and devotion to work
are include in Type B behavior pattern.
What are the key elements of communication?
Encoding, message, and feedback
Encoding, noise, and symbols
Message, circuit, and decoding
Feedback, message, and perception
Feedback, circuit, and perception
Large teams make ______ for individuals ______ difficult.
need satisfaction, less
participation, less
need satisfaction, more
disagreements, more
none of the above
The _______ stage of the five stages of team development is marked by
conflict and disagreement
performing
norming
storming
forming
reforming
Decentralized control is most consistent with which of the following budget
processes?
Bottom-up budgeting
Top-down budgeting
Strategic budgeting
Cost budgeting
None of these
Total quality management
is based on the ideas of Frederick Taylor
gives managers total responsibility for achieving quality goals
gives all employees the responsibility for achieving quality goals
was first successfully implemented in the United States
all of these
Which of these is the management function concerned with monitoring
employees’ activities, keeping the organization on track toward its goals,
and making corrections as needed?
Planning
Resource allocation
Controlling
Organizing
Efficiency
The degree to which an organization achieves a stated goal refers to
effectiveness.
synergy.
conceptual skill.
efficiency.
human skill.
The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the development of
which management perspective?
The human relations movement
The behavioral sciences approach
The classical perspective
The quantitative management approach
The TQM approach
Frank Gilbreth felt that efficiency equated with _______ .
one best way to do work
leadership flows from the top down
procedures and policies
scientific management
bureaucracy
For a programmed decision,
alternatives are usually difficult to identify
alternatives are usually easy to identify
there are usually few alternatives
there are usually few alternatives and they are difficult to identify
there are no alternatives
_______ can be defined as technology characterized by intangible outputs
and direct contact between employees and customer.
Tangible technology
Direct technology
Service technology
Complex technology
Flexible manufacturing
_______ change is based on organizational efforts to improve basic work
and organizational processes in different areas of the business.
Transformational
Unplanned
Government-forced
Incremental
SWOT
A training method that attempts to introduce newcomers to the
organization’s culture is called
on-the-job training
classroom training
orientation training
developmental training
external training
_______ means that an organization accommodates several subcultures.
Monoculturalism
Pluralism
Ethnorelativism
Geocentricism
Ethnocentrism
People with an external locus of control are
more achievement oriented
better able to handle complex information and problem solving
more independent
easier to motivate
easier to lead
“As managers use computers and software tools more often, they’ll be able
to make more rational decisions.” Do you agree or disagree with this
statement? Why? (15%)
Leadership experts cite the following reasons why leaders fail: arrogant,
distant, eccentric, impulsive, interpersonal insensitivity, perfectionist,
volatile, and argumentative. Why do you think these factors might lead to
leadership failure? What could leaders do to avoid these? (15%)
Please explain the following: (一)benchmarking, (二)workforce diversity,
(三)ethics, (四)innovation. (20%)
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