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Business Management is a comprehensive course that introduces students to the fundamental principles and practices involved in running and leading enterprises of various sizes. Covering topics such as organizational structure, leadership, strategic planning, decision-making, marketing, and human resource management, this course equips learners with the analytical tools and practical skills needed to solve complex business problems. Emphasis is placed on understanding how businesses operate within economic, legal, and ethical frameworks, and on developing competencies for effective communication, team management, and innovation in todays dynamic global business environment.
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MGMT 11th Edition by Chuck Williams
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Chapter 1: Management
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Q1) Mike supervises the work of factory workers in an automobile manufacturing firm. Most of his time is spent on quality control, scheduling workers, and training new employees. Mike can be categorized as a _____.
A) first-line manager
B) middle manager
C) top-level manager
D) plant manager
Answer: A
Q2) _____ involves accomplishing tasks that help fulfill organizational objectives.
A) Effectiveness
B) Equity
C) Synergy
D) Retrenchment
Answer: A
Q3) Technical skills are more important for top managers and middle managers than they are for lower-level managers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The History of Management
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Q1) The management at Yellow Wheels believes that employees are easily replaceable and that they should be replaced when they no longer add value to the company. When a group of employees approached the management and asked for a raise, they got laid off and the company hired new employees to replace them. In this scenario, the approach used by Yellow Wheels is known as _____.
A) mediation
B) domination
C) integration
D) collaboration
Answer: B
Q2) The management of Telsey Corp. gives additional funds to only the team that performed the best in the last quarter. Funds are not given to other teams even when they need them. Which of the following concepts does this scenario exemplify?
A) Integration
B) Domination
C) Accommodation
D) Mediation
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Organizational Environments and Cultures
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Q1) Proactive monitoring of customers involves identifying and addressing customer trends and problems after they occur.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Managers feel confident that they can understand, predict, and react to the external forces affecting their businesses when:
A) resource scarcity is low.
B) environmental change is extensive.
C) the industry is not at an equilibrium state.
D) environmental complexity is high.
Answer: A
Q3) Organizational members use _____ to make sense of organizational events and changes and to emphasize culturally consistent assumptions, decisions, and actions.
A) cultural maps
B) organizational hierarchies
C) organizational stories
D) business confidence indices
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Social Responsibility
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Q1) Carrying out discretionary responsibilities is mandatory for every organization.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Fred always takes two hours to complete a job that can be completed in one hour. He believes that taking more time to finish his work will impress his supervisors. In the context of workplace deviance, this is an example of _____.
A) production deviance
B) property deviance
C) political deviance
D) personal aggression
Q3) Which of the following is a similarity between political deviance and personal aggression?
A) Both involve the theft of company merchandise.
B) Both involve harming coworkers.
C) Both address the issue of quality of work.
D) Both aim at damaging company property.
Q4) Organizational culture is key to fostering ethical decision making.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Planning and Decision Making
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Q1) The production team members of Agrimotor, an agricultural machinery manufacturer, are expected to follow standing plans when any of the machinery used for production stops functioning. These standing plans describe what they should and should not do. They also detail how to deal with the situation. Given this information, the standing plans in this scenario can best be referred to as _____.
A) purpose statements
B) rules and regulations
C) principles and rationales
D) recommendation forms
Q2) Cassie runs a cake shop. Her primary goal is to set up the largest chain of cake shops in the city. Apart from this goal, another goal of Cassie's is to sell 400 cakes in December. In this scenario, Cassie's goal of selling 400 cakes in December is an example of a _____.
A) capstone goal
B) passive goal
C) distal goal
D) proximal goal
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Chapter 6: Organizational Strategy
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Q1) In the context of grand strategies, the _____ of a company focuses on increasing profits, revenues, market share, or the number of places in which the company does business.
A) retrenchment strategy
B) stability strategy
C) downsizing strategy
D) growth strategy
Q2) Which of the following conditions must be met if a firm's resources are to be used to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage?
A) The resources must be low-cost and commutable.
B) The resources must be controlled by other competing firms.
C) The resources must be perfectly imitable.
D) The resources must be valuable, rare, and nonsubstitutable.
Q3) Strategic reference points are the less visible, internal decision-making routines, problem-solving processes, and organizational cultures that determine how efficiently inputs can be turned into outputs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Innovation and Change
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Q1) Gamapro, a company that manufactures gaming devices, has launched a new gaming console along with a new set of games for the new version of the console. However, the games designed for the previous versions of the consoles can also be used on the new console because of backward compatibility. Which of the following concepts does this scenario best illustrate?
A) Unfreezing
B) Generational change
C) Refreezing
D) Technological lockout
Q2) During design competition, _____.
A) the patterns of innovation over time create sustainable competitive advantage
B) an older technology usually improves significantly in response to the competitive threat from the new technologies
C) a scientific advance of existing technologies creates a significant breakthrough in performance or function
D) a new dominant design prevents a company from competitively selling its products or makes it difficult to do so
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Chapter 8: Global Management
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Q1) The employees of Kilki Corp. learned that unlike the people living in the U.S., people living in Norway eat burgers with a knife and fork. In the context of cross-cultural training, when would the employees of the company have discovered this cultural difference?
A) During documentary training
B) During cultural simulation
C) During field simulation
D) During adaptive screening
Q2) American employees of Ujima Corp. learned that they should avoid using their left hand when giving a gift or handing out money when they were in India for their business assignment. In the context of cross-cultural training, when would the employees of the company have discovered this cultural difference?
A) During documentary training
B) During cultural simulation
C) During field simulation
D) During adaptive screening
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Chapter 9: Designing Adaptive Organizations
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Q1) In the context of interorganizational processes, which of the following is true of virtual organizations?
A) Their operating costs are significantly higher than that of traditional organizations.
B) The outside organizations a company does its businesses with are tightly linked to one central company.
C) They are slow and inflexible when compared to modular organizations.
D) They use a broker to create and assemble the knowledge, skills, and resources from different companies for customers.
Q2) Amborfes Inc., a company that supplies packing materials to pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, ensures that its employees do not get bored of specific jobs by periodically moving them across a variety of jobs such as pasting of cartons, manufacturing of blisters, manufacturing of sleeves for plastic bottles, scoring of cartons, and printing and laminating of cartons. In the context of job design, Amborfes Inc. is most likely using _____.
A) job specialization
B) job rotation
C) task rigidity
D) task identity
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Chapter 10: Managing Teams
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Q1) In which of the following ways can teams have healthy conflicts?
A) By imposing a consensus to resolve issues
B) By establishing individual goals
C) By using limited and subjective data
D) By focusing on issues rather than personalities
Q2) Mara and Osman believe that they are the spokespersons for their team, and all the other team members are incapable of coming up with any plans on their own. As a result, they do not allow any other team member to speak during meetings and discussions. This work team is most likely experiencing _____.
A) minority domination
B) groupthink
C) synergy
D) structural accommodation
Q3) _____ represents the variances or differences in ability, experience, personality, or any other factor on a team.
A) Team equity
B) Team autonomy
C) Team synergy
D) Team diversity
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Chapter 11: Managing Human Resource Systems
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Q1) Dana's application for the post of marketing manager was rejected because she turned down the interviewer's repeated requests to go out on a date with him. In the context of employment legislation, this scenario best illustrates _____.
A) adverse impact
B) disparate treatment
C) quid pro quo sexual harassment
D) structural accommodation
Q2) Which of the following is an advantage of internal recruiting?
A) It reduces recruitment start-up time and costs.
B) It eliminates employee discrimination.
C) It restricts social loading and groupthink.
D) It offers a wider choice of candidates compared to external recruiting.
Q3) The first selection devices that most job applicants encounter when they seek a job are application forms and résumés.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is a major federal employment law.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Managing Individuals and a Diverse Workforce
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Q1) A difference between workplace diversity and affirmative action is that:
A) unlike diversity programs, organizations that pursue affirmative action programs do so voluntarily.
B) organizations cannot achieve diversity without affirmative action, whereas affirmative action can take place without diversity.
C) affirmative action guarantees diversity, whereas diversity does not guarantee affirmative action.
D) affirmative action is required by law for private employers with fifty or more employees, whereas diversity is not.
Q2) Unlike the learning and effectiveness paradigm, the discrimination and fairness paradigm focuses on:
A) integrating deep-level diversity differences into the actual work of an organization.
B) the surface-level diversity dimensions of sex, race, and ethnicity.
C) matching demographic differences inside a company with those of key customers and stakeholders.
D) creating a demographically diverse workforce that attracts a broader customer base.
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Chapter 13: Motivation
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Q1) Pay, benefits, and job security/organizational financial stability are considered very important intrinsic factors that motivate employees.
A)True
B)False
Q2) At Debrelas, a cosmetics manufacturing company, the salespeople are eligible for quarterly bonuses only if they meet their sales target for each month in that particular quarter. In the context of reinforcement theory of motivation, which of the following intermittent reinforcement schedules does this scenario best illustrate?
A) A fixed ratio reinforcement schedule
B) A fixed interval reinforcement schedule
C) A variable interval reinforcement schedule
D) A variable ratio reinforcement schedule
Q3) In the context of equity theory, pay, fringe benefits, status symbols, and job titles and assignments are examples of _____.
A) outcomes
B) referents
C) inputs
D) valences
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Chapter 14: Leadership
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Q1) In the context of the Blake/Mouton leadership grid, which of the following is a similarity between leaders using the impoverished management leadership style and leaders using the authority-compliance leadership style?
A) Both have a low concern for production.
B) Both have a high concern for production.
C) Both have a high concern for people.
D) Both have a low concern for people.
Q2) Angela, a manager at Exuberance Inc., believes in giving special attention to the needs of employees, creating learning opportunities for them, accepting and tolerating differences, and listening to their problems. Which of the following components of transformational leadership is illustrated in this scenario?
A) Individualized consideration
B) Idealized influence
C) Intellectual stimulation
D) Inspirational motivation
Q3) Directive leadership is very similar to considerate leader behavior.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Managing Communication
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Q1) _____ means assuming half the responsibility for successful communication by giving the speaker nonjudgmental feedback that shows you've accurately heard what he or she said.
A) Passive listening
B) Incongruent communication
C) Reactive communication
D) Active listening
Q2) Wilvade Inc. has modified the work timings for its employees. The employees of the company believe that the new timings are inconvenient and voice their concerns to the management. The management tries to understand the perspective of the employees and is willing to address their issues. In this scenario, the management of Wilvade Inc. is most likely using _____.
A) empathetic listening
B) incongruent communication
C) reactive communication
D) respondent conditioning
Q3) Delayed feedback is much more effective than immediate feedback.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Control
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Q1) Identify a true statement about a self-control system.
A) It allows an employee to do whatever he or she wants.
B) It does not result in anarchy.
C) It does not restrict workers with boundaries.
D) It allows managers to control the goals and behaviors of workers.
Q2) _____ is the use of observable measures of worker behavior or outputs to assess performance and influence behavior.
A) Bureaucratic control
B) Objective control
C) Normative control
D) Concertive control
Q3) Gigi, the owner of Café Mantra, gives small rewards-free movie tickets-to employees who regularly come to work on time and complete the tasks assigned to them. Employees who break rules or deviate from the company policy, however, often get a cut in their performance-linked incentives. Gigi is using _____ with her employees.
A) adaptive control
B) normative control
C) concertive control
D) bureaucratic control
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Chapter 17: Managing Information
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Q1) Data mining is the process of discovering patterns and relationships in large amounts of data.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Cosmo Techno, a new technology firm, invested $50,000 to obtain high-speed Internet services for fast and efficient transmission of information across its branches. In this scenario, the investment cost incurred by Cosmo Techno is an example of _____.
A) storage cost
B) processing cost
C) communication cost
D) retrieval cost
Q3) The term _____ refers to facts and figures that are useless unless they have meaning.
A) variable
B) knowledge
C) raw data
D) census data
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Chapter 18: Managing Service and Manufacturing Operations
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Q1) The Lucitona International Airport operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. On an average, the airport handles 4900 flights per week. Which of the following indicates the average productivity of the airport?
A) 204 flights per hour
B) 700 flights per day
C) 102 flights per hour
D) 350 flights per day
Q2) Businesses that apply for the Baldrige Performance Excellence Award are judged on _____ criteria.
A) five
B) six
C) seven
D) eight
Q3) In the context of manufacturing operations, unlike make-to-order operations, make-to-stock operations:
A) produce highly specialized products.
B) involve the highest degree of processing.
C) do not start assembling products until a customer order is received.
D) are highly dependent on the accuracy of sales forecasts.
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