Business Management
Which of the following statements about first-line management is true:
First-line managers are not responsible for carrying out middle management’s plans.
First-line managers never work side by side with their employees.
Businesses typically hire their first-line managers from inside the company.
There are normally fewer first-line managers than middle or top-level managers.
Businesses typically hire their first-line managers from inside the company.
Which of the following behaviors demonstrates the primary business activity of strategic management:
Recruiting appropriate employees
Obtaining funds for business projects
Planning and organizing for the future
Regularly updating business processes
Planning and organizing for the future
Making sure a company follows laws and regulations describes the HR management activity of
compliance.
staffing.
compensation and benefits.
employee relations.
compliance
How many cards are there in a deck of Uno?
108
Which gas makes up the majority of Earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
Which of the following do many businesses believe to be their most important resource:
Employees
Office supplies
Equipment
Sales revenue
Employees
Which of the following demonstrates the interrelationship among primary business activities:
A business changes its goals, so its strategies and tactics change, too.
A new product is introduced, so business advertisements must adjust.
A business manager becomes vice president, so their department must adjust to the change.
One business activity changes, so the others must adjust.
One business activity changes, so the others must adjust.
Which of the following workplace-related safety and health issues would most likely be regulated by law:
Weight-management programs
Smoking cessation support groups
Storage and disposal of chemicals
Health education information sessions
Storage and disposal of chemicals
What goes up and down, but still remains in the same place?
Stairs
What is the basic unit of life?
A cell
Why do all businesses need financial resources?
To negotiate bank loans
To develop cash budgets
To pay operating expenses
To manage investment accounts
To pay operating expenses
When the Pretty Pictures framing business underwent internal restructuring last year, how would its primary business activities have reacted?
They stayed the same.
They changed radically.
They adjusted according to the internal changes.
They adjusted according to the external changes.
They adjusted according to the internal changes.
Which of the following is a compliance issue:
Conflict mediation
Carpool organization
Performance management
Minimum wage
Minimum wage
What classic video game requires you to eat all the dots throughout a maze?
Pac-man
What is the study of fossils called?
Paleontology
Who is normally responsible for purchasing the proper material resources for workers to use in doing their jobs?
Middle managers
First-line workers
Supervisory managers
Top-level managers
Middle managers
When Caring Companions and Smiling Pets merged two years ago, what was the most likely effect on the primary business activities of both companies?
All of the primary business activities combined into one activity.
Each primary business activity combined with the matching activity of the other firm.
Each primary business activity became two smaller business activities.
All of the primary business activities combined into two distinct activities.
Each primary business activity combined with the matching activity of the other firm.
Which of the following is an example of an employee-assistance program:
Career and education planning
Compensation
Training on the use of dangerous power equipment
Corrective action
Career and education planning
If a zookeeper had 100 pairs of animals in her zoo, and two pairs of babies are born for each one of the original animals, then (sadly) 23 animals don’t survive, how many animals do you have left in total?
977 animals (100 x 2 = 200; 200 + 800 = 1000; 1000 – 23 = 977)
An average human takes how many breaths in a day?
Within 2000
23000
21000 - 25000
A manager studies the business’s previous sales statistics as well as the sales forecast before making purchasing decisions. What type of resource is the manager using?
Material
Financial
Human
Information
Information
An example of performing business activities in an “unusual” way is when a business
operates as the link between customers and products.
begins long-term planning and organization.
offers a new product in a popular product line.
hires an outside firm to perform its marketing.
hires an outside firm to perform its marketing.
Labor-union negotiations are part of which HR management activity?
Compensation and benefits
Employee relations
Training and development
Staffing
Employee relations
In chess, the queen has the combined movement of which two pieces?
bishop and rook
Name the tallest type of grass.
Bamboo