WGU C483 PRACTICE TEST CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION SCRIPT 2026 FULL SOLUTION SET
◉ Accountability. Answer: The expectation that employees will
perform a job, take corrective action when necessary, and report
upward on the status and quality of their performance
◉ Accounting audits. Answer: Procedures used to verify accounting
reports and statements
◉ Acquisition. Answer: One firm buying another
◉ Activity-based costing (ABC). Answer: A method of cost
accounting designed to identify streams of activity and then to
allocate costs across particular business processes according to the
amount of time employees devote to particular activities
◉ Adapters. Answer: Companies that take the current industry
structure and its evolution as givens, and choose where to compete
◉ Adverse impact. Answer: When a seemingly neutral employment
practice has a disproportionately negative effect on a protected
group
,◉ Advertising support model. Answer: Charging fees to advertise on
a site
◉ Affective conflict. Answer: Emotional disagreement directed
toward other people
◉ Affiliate model. Answer: Charging fees to direct site visitors to
other companies' sites
◉ Affirmative action. Answer: Special efforts to recruit and hire
qualified members of groups that have been discriminated against in
the past
◉ After-action review. Answer: A frank and open-minded discussion
of four basic questions aimed at continuous improvement
◉ Alderfer's ERG theory. Answer: A human needs theory postulating
that people have three basic sets of needs that can operate
simultaneously
◉ Arbitration. Answer: The use of a neutral third party to resolve a
labor dispute
,◉ Assessment center. Answer: A managerial performance test in
which candidates participate in a variety of exercises and situations
◉ Assets. Answer: The values of the various items the corporation
owns
◉ Authentic leadership. Answer: A style in which the leader is true
to himself or herself while leading
◉ Authority. Answer: The legitimate right to make decisions and to
tell other people what to do
◉ Autocratic leadership. Answer: A form of leadership in which the
leader makes decisions on his or her own and then announces those
decisions to the group
◉ Autonomous work groups. Answer: Groups that control decisions
about and execution of a complete range of tasks
◉ Avoidance. Answer: A reaction to conflict that involves ignoring
the problem by doing nothing at all or deemphasizing the
disagreement
, ◉ Balanced scorecard. Answer: Control system combining four sets
of performance measures: financial, customer, business process, and
learning and growth
◉ Balance sheet. Answer: A report that shows the financial picture
of a company at a given time and itemizes assets, liabilities, and
stockholders' equity
◉ Barriers to entry. Answer: Conditions that prevent new companies
from entering an industry
◉ Behavioral approach. Answer: A leadership perspective that
attempts to identify what good leaders do—that is, what behaviors
they exhibit
◉ Benchmarking. Answer: The process of comparing an
organization's practices and technologies with those of other
companies
◉ Bootlegging. Answer: Informal work on projects, other than those
officially assigned, of employees' own choosing and initiative
◉ Boundaryless organization. Answer: Organization in which there
are no barriers to information flow
EVALUATION SCRIPT 2026 FULL SOLUTION SET
◉ Accountability. Answer: The expectation that employees will
perform a job, take corrective action when necessary, and report
upward on the status and quality of their performance
◉ Accounting audits. Answer: Procedures used to verify accounting
reports and statements
◉ Acquisition. Answer: One firm buying another
◉ Activity-based costing (ABC). Answer: A method of cost
accounting designed to identify streams of activity and then to
allocate costs across particular business processes according to the
amount of time employees devote to particular activities
◉ Adapters. Answer: Companies that take the current industry
structure and its evolution as givens, and choose where to compete
◉ Adverse impact. Answer: When a seemingly neutral employment
practice has a disproportionately negative effect on a protected
group
,◉ Advertising support model. Answer: Charging fees to advertise on
a site
◉ Affective conflict. Answer: Emotional disagreement directed
toward other people
◉ Affiliate model. Answer: Charging fees to direct site visitors to
other companies' sites
◉ Affirmative action. Answer: Special efforts to recruit and hire
qualified members of groups that have been discriminated against in
the past
◉ After-action review. Answer: A frank and open-minded discussion
of four basic questions aimed at continuous improvement
◉ Alderfer's ERG theory. Answer: A human needs theory postulating
that people have three basic sets of needs that can operate
simultaneously
◉ Arbitration. Answer: The use of a neutral third party to resolve a
labor dispute
,◉ Assessment center. Answer: A managerial performance test in
which candidates participate in a variety of exercises and situations
◉ Assets. Answer: The values of the various items the corporation
owns
◉ Authentic leadership. Answer: A style in which the leader is true
to himself or herself while leading
◉ Authority. Answer: The legitimate right to make decisions and to
tell other people what to do
◉ Autocratic leadership. Answer: A form of leadership in which the
leader makes decisions on his or her own and then announces those
decisions to the group
◉ Autonomous work groups. Answer: Groups that control decisions
about and execution of a complete range of tasks
◉ Avoidance. Answer: A reaction to conflict that involves ignoring
the problem by doing nothing at all or deemphasizing the
disagreement
, ◉ Balanced scorecard. Answer: Control system combining four sets
of performance measures: financial, customer, business process, and
learning and growth
◉ Balance sheet. Answer: A report that shows the financial picture
of a company at a given time and itemizes assets, liabilities, and
stockholders' equity
◉ Barriers to entry. Answer: Conditions that prevent new companies
from entering an industry
◉ Behavioral approach. Answer: A leadership perspective that
attempts to identify what good leaders do—that is, what behaviors
they exhibit
◉ Benchmarking. Answer: The process of comparing an
organization's practices and technologies with those of other
companies
◉ Bootlegging. Answer: Informal work on projects, other than those
officially assigned, of employees' own choosing and initiative
◉ Boundaryless organization. Answer: Organization in which there
are no barriers to information flow
