Management Theory and Practice
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Course Introduction
Management Theory and Practice explores the foundational principles and contemporary approaches to effective organizational management. The course examines classical, behavioral, and modern management theories, and applies them to real-world business contexts. Students will gain an understanding of key management functions such as planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, while analyzing the roles and responsibilities of managers in various types of organizations. Through case studies, discussions, and practical exercises, the course emphasizes decision-making, leadership, motivation, and strategic thinking, equipping students with the knowledge and skills necessary to address current challenges in management practice.
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MGMT 10th Edition by Chuck Williams
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Chapter 1: Management
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Q1) Tracy is the head of one of the three groups in the production department at an apparel manufacturing company. She assigns work to each of her subordinates in the group on a regular basis. Although she is not solely responsible for the performance of her group, she facilitates the group in achieving the monthly targets of production. In this scenario, Tracy is most likely a _____.
A) middle manager
B) team leader
C) first-line manager
D) top manager
Answer: B
Q2) As soon as she allocates tasks to her subordinates, Yolanda, an account manager, thinks about the next set of tasks that she can allocate to them so that she can gain credit from her superiors in the organization. Which of the following management mistakes is evident by this act of Yolanda?
A) Overdependence on mentor
B) Being overly ambitious
C) Insensitivity to others
D) Inability to staff effectively
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The History of Management
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Q1) Bill manages to complete every project he is involved in before its deadline. In the context of scientific management, Bill can be considered a(n) _____.
A) rate buster
B) soldier
C) bureaucrat
D) opinion leader
Answer: A
Q2) Laveall has created seven global product divisions-fragrances, baby care, batteries, oral care, men's grooming, convenience foods, and detergents-and three marketing divisions-one for North America, one for Asia, and one for Europe. In the context of the systems approach to management, these ten divisions are examples of _____.
A) suprasystems
B) nonfunctional systems
C) subsystems
D) closed systems
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Organizational Environments and Cultures
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Q1) Merchargy is a firm that supplies garments to apparel stores. Merchargy discovered that one of its customers, Apricoress, a large apparel store, had been selling the products sourced from Merchargy at exorbitant rates. As this was a violation of their trade contract, Merchargy filed a suit against Apricoress on the grounds of fraud and won the case. Apricoress incurred huge losses because of the compensation it had to pay Merchargy. In the context of the general environment, this scenario best illustrates the effect of the _____ on organizations.
A) technological component
B) sociocultural component
C) legal component
D) geographical component
Answer: C
Q2) __________involves identifying and addressing customer needs, trends, and issues before they occur.
A) Distributive bargaining
B) Behavioral substitution
C) Proactive monitoring
D) Cognitive mapping
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Ethics and Social Responsibility
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Q1) Pink Cheques, an insurance company, recently came under close scrutiny after its top management was involved in a major scam. The scam led to the company shutting down and many employees, consequently, losing their jobs. This scenario illustrates that the scam had a:
A) low probability of effect.
B) high peer acceptance.
C) low concentration of effect.
D) high magnitude of consequences.
Q2) The U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines for Organizations impose smaller fines on companies that:
A) have no history of violation of ethical principles.
B) are unaware of the unethical behavior of employees.
C) are not concerned with the ethical behavior of employees.
D) voluntarily disclose illegal activities to federal authorities.
Q3) The principle of distributive justice is designed to protect the poor, the uneducated, and the unemployed.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Planning and Decision Making
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Q1) The senior lawyers of Lawteve, a law firm, have differences of opinion about the leave policies that the firm follows. This is because of the differences in their individual history and experiences in the industry. Each of them is willing to have a discussion and arrive at the optimal solution. In this scenario, the conflict among the senior lawyers at Lawteve best exemplifies _____.
A) a-type conflict
B) affective conflict
C) c-type conflict
D) channel conflict
Q2) __________is described as the determination to achieve a goal.
A) Goal setting
B) Satisficing
C) Groupthink
D) Goal commitment
Q3) A drawback of planning is that:
A) it fails to provide direction to managerial activities.
B) it causes detachment, which leads planners to plan for things they do not understand.
C) it discourages employees to put in additional efforts when following a plan.
D) it decreases persistence among employees, and leads to slackness.
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Chapter 6: Organizational Strategy
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Q1) Brenden Corp. has five strategic business units (SBUs)-telecommunication, trucking, electronics, energy, and oil exploration. The telecommunication unit has slowed down in terms of growth and is now dominated mainly by a few large companies. Brenden Corp. has a low market share in the industry and does not generate enough revenue to even cover its costs. In the context of the BCG matrix, which of the following categories of SBUs best describes the telecommunication unit?
A) Stars
B) Cash cows
C) Question marks
D) Dogs
Q2) A competitive advantage becomes a sustainable competitive advantage when other companies start duplicating the value a firm is providing to customers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A strategic group is a task force within a company that analyzes the company's own weaknesses to determine how competitors could exploit them for competitive advantage.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Innovation and Change
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Q1) Which of the following is an error that managers make in the refreezing phase?
A) They do not create a powerful enough coalition.
B) They undercommunicate the vision by a factor of ten.
C) They declare victory too soon.
D) They lack a vision for change.
Q2) Kathym, a company that sells women's handbags, gives all its junior designers the opportunity to come up with their own original designs. The managers believe that providing them with challenging tasks keeps the designers interested and helps them innovate. In the context of managing sources of innovation, which of the following concepts does this scenario best illustrate?
A) A creative work environment
B) Generational change
C) Technological lockout
D) A compression approach to innovation
Q3) In the context of managing resistance to change, an error in the refreezing stage is not systematically planning for and creating short-term wins.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Global Management
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Q1) Which of the following best defines a tariff?
A) It is a specific limit on the volume of imported goods.
B) It is a direct tax on imported goods.
C) It is a complete ban on trade of a certain item.
D) It is a limit on the number of products exported to a particular country.
Q2) According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), voluntary export restraints are legal and cannot be questioned.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Lochmonden already has a company registered under the name of CreateOne. The Aldemeren company with the same brand name was not able to enter Lochmonden market. Hence, the Aldemeren CreateOne had to start a new company in the name of OneCreate to enter the market in Lochmonden. This scenario is an example of _____.
A) strategic alliance
B) direct foreign investment
C) direct export
D) joint venture
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Chapter 9: Designing Adaptive Organizations
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Q1) Phillip is a mechanical engineer who works for an automobile company. He is assigned projects that require intensive designing and planning before its initiation. This is an example of job rotation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Applepom, a multinational restaurant chain, follows different pricing policies and serves different types of cuisine depending on the region it operates in. The company has separate departments for the Middle East, other Asian countries, Russia, other European countries, North America, Latin America, Oceania, and Africa. In this scenario, which of the following organizational structures does Applepom most likely follow?
A) Geographic departmentalization
B) Functional departmentalization
C) Customer departmentalization
D) Product departmentalization
Q3) The third transfer that occurs with delegation is that the manager gives the subordinate full authority over the budget, resources, and personnel needed to do a job.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Managing Teams
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of self-designing teams?
A) They require management approval to perform a task.
B) They control work tasks and team membership.
C) They are also known as self-managing teams.
D) They have less autonomy than employee involvement teams.
Q2) Carmine Inc. is a software firm that caters to the requirements of its clients. At Carmine, work teams have access to all vital and confidential data that is normally accessible only to managers. This helps motivate teams and keep them well informed. In this scenario, the employee-friendly workplace culture is most likely to increase _____.
A) employee job satisfaction
B) centralization of authority
C) organizational information security
D) grapevine communication
Q3) 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
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Chapter 11: Managing Human Resource Systems
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Q1) While recruiting law graduates through campus placements, the recruitment team at Prangley, a law firm, asks the universities to furnish details about candidates that are not disclosed in their résumés. These details include remarks of the candidates' project guides, disciplinary actions taken against the candidates, and attendance history of the candidates. In the context of job selection, this scenario best illustrates _____.
A) performance appraisals
B) background checks
C) cognitive ability tests
D) personality tests
Q2) A(n)__________is an exception in employment law that permits sex, age, religion, and the like to be used when making employment decisions, but only if they are "reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business."
A) registered employment agreement
B) employment regulation order
C) bona fide occupational qualification
D) critical skills employment permit
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Chapter 12: Managing Individuals and a Diverse Workforce
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Q1) In the context of deep-level diversity, a(n)__________is the tendency to respond to situations and events in a predetermined manner.
A) disability
B) disposition
C) tribulation
D) intervention
Q2) Which of the following is true of older workers?
A) They are more likely to be careful about the quality of their work.
B) They are more likely to switch jobs.
C) They are more likely to be absent because of health issues.
D) They are more likely to engage in workplace aggression.
Q3) Kendrick's is a chain of high-end department stores. The company's sales representatives are ethnically diverse. In the given scenario, the sales representatives at Kendrick's display _____.
A) deep-level diversity
B) surface-level diversity
C) religious diversity
D) educational diversity
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Chapter 13: Motivation
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Q1) Kathleen is elated after getting promoted to senior sales manager. She aims to get her next promotion by the end of the next fiscal year. She wants to gain more recognition in the organization and in the society. In the context of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, this scenario best illustrates Kathleen's _____.
A) belongingness needs
B) esteem needs
C) physiological needs
D) safety needs
Q2) Larry recently moved to Austin for a new job. He has been staying in an apartment alone ever since. He feels the need to make new friends and hence decides to join a recreational club. In the context of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, this scenario best illustrates Larry's _____.
A) safety needs
B) physiological needs
C) esteem needs
D) belongingness needs
Q3) Managers should reduce employees' outcomes to restore equity.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Leadership
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Q1) Sarah, a manager at Ackles Inc., plays pranks on her subordinates in an attempt to make the workplace livelier. She trusts her subordinates and does not care much about the quality of their work. In the context of the Blake/Mouton leadership grid, which of the following leadership styles is Sarah using in this scenario?
A) The middle-of-the-road style
B) The country club style
C) The authority-compliance style
D) The impoverished style
Q2) Chloe runs a publication house. She maintains a fun and relaxed atmosphere at work. She believes that as long as her employees are comfortable at work, they will continue to work without complaining. She does not give much emphasis to employee productivity. In the context of the Blake/Mouton leadership grid, which of the following leadership styles is Chloe using in this scenario?
A) The middle-of-the-road style
B) The country club style
C) The authority-compliance style
D) The impoverished style
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Chapter 15: Managing Communication
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Q1) Harper ordered a pair of shoes from an e-commerce website. A few days later, she received a notification from the website informing her that the delivery of her order would be delayed. She assumed that this delay was occurred because the shoe store was located in another city, even though that was not the case. This scenario illustrates the concept of _____.
A) closure
B) kinesics
C) social loafing
D) structural accommodation
Q2) In the context of nonverbal communication, _____ include arm and hand gestures, facial expressions, eye contact, folding arms, crossing legs, and leaning toward or away from another person.
A) proxemics
B) kinesics
C) paralanguages
D) metalanguages
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) The second phase in the development of concertive control involves:
A) the formalization of objective rules to guide and control behavior.
B) the validation of procedures that allow group members to self-manage.
C) the ousting of group members who are deemed to be unfit for the group.
D) the evaluation of a group's performance to determine its continuance or discontinuance.
Q2) _____ is a mechanism for gathering information about performance deficiencies after they occur.
A) Feedforward control
B) Concurrent control
C) Feedback control
D) Adaptive control
Q3) Chenrezic is an organization that specializes in subtitling foreign movies and television shows. According to the company's policy, if managers and employees meet quality standards, they can avail as many leaves as they like. This scenario illustrates that Chenrezic uses _____.
A) self-control
B) concertive control
C) bureaucratic control
D) normative control
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Chapter 17: Managing Information
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Q1) A group of investigators are investigating a recent airplane crash in Lucitona. The investigators discovered debris of the aircraft, which provided them the information regarding the nature of the plane crash. Because the flight data recorder (a device that preserves the recent history of the flight) of the airplane was completely destroyed in the plane crash, the investigators were unable to determine what exactly went wrong. The absence of the flight data recorder led the investigators to call off the investigation. It can be concluded that the investigation was called off because:
A) the information at disposal was inaccurate.
B) the information at disposal was incomplete.
C) the information at disposal was irrelevant.
D) the information at disposal was untimely.
Q2) Intranets allow companies to exchange information and conduct transactions with outsiders by providing them direct, web-based access to authorized parts of a company's information system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Data and information are the same as knowledge.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Managing Service and Manufacturing Operations
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Q1) Durability is a characteristic that determines the quality of a service.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Belwick Railway Station operates 24 hours per day in all seven days of a week. On an average, the railway station handles 480 trains per day. Which of the following indicates the average productivity of the railway station?
A) 5 trains per hour
B) 10 trains per hour
C) 20 trains per hour
D) 25 trains per hour
Q3) AfterGlow, a body and bath products manufacturing company, produces around 12,000 bottles of shampoo a day. The production system used by the company is very efficient, and it packs close to 1000 bottles per hour. Once the production system is turned on, it functions round the clock to cap and deposit bottles until the machine is turned off. The production system of AfterGlow is an example of _____.
A) continuous-flow production
B) prototype production
C) batch production
D) job shop production
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