The sunshine company is reducing its size by selling off or closing down units and product lines to increase profitability. What is company doing?
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Downsizing
Rightsizing
Reengineering
Acquisition
If personality characteristics were completely dictated by ________, they would be fixed at birth and no amount of experience could alter them.
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Job satisfaction
Heredity
Environment
Situations
The two general approaches to bargaining are known as:
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Emotional and rational
Affective and reflective
Distributive and integrative
Formal and informal
Which of the following is an accurate definition of recruitment?
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The process of short listing employees from a pool of applicants
The process by which companies fill the need to find new employees
It is a document that explain duties and responsibilities of employees
It is a technique for reducing the labor supply with in an organization
Ineffective planning of workforce would be highlighted by:
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Recruitment and selection problems
The need to out source some of the production
A need to offer retraining to current employees
An opportunity to increase the use of mechanization
People with which type of personality trait commonly make poor decisions because they make them too fast?
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Type As
Type Bs
Self-monitors
Extroverts
Which of the following is ‘NOT’ one of the most common reasons people join groups?
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Security
Status
Equity
Power
Which of the following is the most likely explanation for the higher absentee rate of women in the workplace?
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Women tend to have more illnesses that keep them from work than do men
Traditionally, women have had the responsibility of caring for home and family
Women tend to be less satisfied with their jobs than men
Women generally have jobs for which a temporary replacement can be hired
Th
e management of Z&H Corporation is rethinking and redesigning those processes by which the organization can create value and get-ridding itself from operations that have become antiquated in the computer age. What is Z&H doing?
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Merger
Downsizing
Rightsizing
Reengineering
The employee writes a complaint letter to his manager. Putting his thoughts onto paper is an example of:
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Encoding
Messaging
Channeling
Cryptography
Performance evaluations are used to _____.
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Improve group cohesiveness
Define departmental structure
Validate employee selection programs
Identify how jobs are completed
Omega Electronics Company decides to establish southern, Midwestern, western, and eastern zones of operation. Based on this expansion, the organization is doing which of the following type of departmentalization?
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Customer
Geography
Regional
Matrix
Which of the following statements about the determinants of personality is true?
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Personality appears to be a result of external factors
Personality appears to be a result of mainly hereditary factors
Personality appears to be a result of mainly environmental factors
Personality appears to be a result of both hereditary and environmental factors
In which stage of the conflict process does conflict become visible?
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Illumination
Intentions
Behavior
Cognition
Some individuals promote their image by describing others with whom they are associated in a positive light. These individuals are using which of the following impression management technique?
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Conformity
Flattery
Association
Self-promotion
Trust and trustworthiness affect a leader’s access to:
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Dedication and achievement
Persuasion and control
Power and influence
Knowledge and cooperation
What term is used for intense feelings that are directed at someone or something?
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Affect
Cognition
Thoughts
Emotions
Ahmed believes that men perform better in oral presentations than women. What shortcut has been used in this case?
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The halo effect
The contrast effect
Projection
Stereotyping
If you support the idea that conflict should be eliminated, you are supporting which of the following views of conflict?
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The traditional view
The human relations view
The interactionist view
The positivistic view
Which one of the following is NOT implied in the definition of power?
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Influence
Potential
Dependency
Actualization
Values like working hard, being creative and honest are the means which lead towards achieving organizational goals. Which of the following term best describes these values?
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Terminal values
Instrumental values
Theoretical values
Social values
In the modern work world, where higher-level trust has been largely destroyed because of broken promises, it is likely to be replaced with which of the following type of trust?
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Reliance-based
Dependence-based
Knowledge-based
Identity-based
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