Global Entrepreneurship & SBM
Management Principles In Action
Human Resources Management
Odd Questions
Math Trivia
100
A ____________________ is a formal, written guide used to start and operate a business.
What is a business plan
100
Managers who centralize power and tell employees what to do are ____________________ managers.
What are autocratic
100
It is possible in some cultures to offend an employee by giving public praise for outstanding achievement.
What is True
100
What planets are attributed as the 'Rocky Planets' in the Solar System?
What is Mercury Venus Earth Mars
100
What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
What is obtuse
200
Managers who decentralize power and share it with employees as they work together to achieve goals are ____________________ managers.
What are participative
200
The type of human resources approach that uses natives of the host country to manager operations within their country and parent-country natives to manage at headquarters is the
What is polycentric approach
200
What is the fear of being buried alive known as? Tatylephobia or Taphephobia
What is Taphephobia
200
What word describes a number system with a base of two?
What is binary system
300
Using a computer and other technology to work at home instead of in a company office or factory is known as ____________________.
What is telecommuting
300
Span of control refers to
The number of employees that a manager supervises
300
The characteristics of a job applicant’s family may be an important consideration for a position in a foreign country. True or False
What is True
300
Where do cows have their sweat glands in their body? In their nose or in their underarm area?
What is in their nose.
300
What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
One
400
A business owner obtains a loan from a bank to cover the cost of building a new factory. This is an example of
What is debt funds
400
Leadership can be described as
What is the ability to get others to follow
400
The type of human resources approach that uses the best available managers without regard for their countries of origin is the
What is regiocentric approach
400
Which is the only dog that does not have a pink tongue? Yorkie or a Chow
What is a chow
400
What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
K & M
500
What is the importance of the breakeven point?
The breakeven point is the level of sales at which all fixed costs have been covered, so this point indicates where profit is to begin being earned
500
The autocratic style of management is usually the style employees work best under. True Or False
What is False
500
The process a person goes through when returning home and getting settled after having worked abroad is called ____________________.
What is repatriation
500
What happens when you dip a pearl in a glass of vinegar?
It melts
500
What's a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?
What is a hologram
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