Leading Edge Management
TRUE OR FALSE
The classical model of decision making assumes that the decision maker is rational and makes the decision that will maximize the attainment of organizational goals.
What is True?
TRUE OR FALSE
Age, race, and gender are included in the traditional model of diversity.
What is True?
"This term refers to the process by which businesses develop international influence or operate on an international scale."
What is globalization?
The act of determining the organization's goals and the means for achieving them is known as
brainstorming.
organizing.
planning.
Option 4
developing a mission.
a blueprint.
What is planning?
TRUE OR FALSE
The raw materials that an organization uses to produce its outputs are provided by customers.
What is False?
At the start of every shift, Camdyn, a delivery truck driver, plans out his delivery route based on a list of addresses that he will be visiting to drop off packages. This can best be described as what kind of decision?
Programmed
Nonprogrammed
Wicked
Administrative
Intuitive
What is Programmed?
Which of the following is a rigid, exaggerated, irrational belief associated with a particular group of people?
Prejudice
Typecast
Discrimination
Stereotype
What is stereotype?
"Managers with this mindset are able to see the bigger picture and understand diverse cultures, which is crucial for success in international markets."
What is a global mind-set?
TRUE OR FALSE
Efficiency can be defined as the amount of resources used to produce a product or service.
What is True?
TRUE OR FALSE
Organizational innovation refers to the adoption of a new idea by an organization.
What is True?
Which of the following is a vital part of good management because decisions determine how the organization solves its problems, allocates resources, and accomplishes its goals?
Organizing
Competitive visioning
Proper alignment
Good decision making
Leadership
What is good decision making?
Which of the following means that managers know which goals they wish to achieve but information about alternatives and future events is incomplete?
Certainty
Risk
Uncertainty
Ambiguity
None of these
What is Uncertainty?
"These two countries are increasingly becoming major players in the global economy, influencing trade and investment trends."
What are China and India?
"This term refers to the detailed actions and steps that outline how an organization will achieve its goals."
What are plans? not on test
The innovation strategy for changing products and technologies that involves designing the organization to encourage creativity and the initiation of new ideas is known as
discovery.
cooperation.
entrepreneurship.
horizontal collaboration and open innovation.
horizontal linkage.
What is discovery?
"Unlike managers in for-profit organizations, nonprofit managers must focus on fulfilling the organization’s ___, which is often related to social or community impact."
What is mission?
TRUE OR FALSE
Current employees, management, and especially corporate culture are part of an organization's internal environment.
What is True?
"This practice involves hiring external companies to perform services or produce goods that were traditionally done in-house."
What is outsourcing?
"Managers can use this document, which defines the organization's purpose and values, to help align goals and resolve conflicts."
What is the organizational mission? in test
Which of the following refers to innovations in products, services, or processes that radically change an industry’s rules of the game for producers and consumers?
Restructuring innovation
Trickle up innovation
Productive innovation
Disruptive innovation
Reverse innovation
What is disruptive innovation?
The nature of management is to motivate and coordinate others to cope with _____ and far-reaching challenges.
simple
planned
diverse
organized
controlled
What is diverse?
Culture can be defined as
the set of key values, beliefs, understandings, and norms shared by members of an organization.
the ability to speak different languages.
an object, act, or event that conveys meaning to others.
a narrative based on true events that is repeated frequently and shared by organizational employees.
None of these choices
What is the set of key values, beliefs, understandings, and norms shared by members of an organization?
"This strategy involves a company entering a foreign market by selling its products directly to customers in that country."
What is exporting?
"These types of goals are short-term and often measurable, helping organizations achieve their strategic objectives incrementally."
What are operational goals? on test
"This tactic involves providing support and resources to help employees adapt to change, reducing their resistance."
What is training and development? for test