FGCU MAN 3025 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS & CORRECT ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATE ALREADY GRADED A+
"diversity wheel - CORRECT ANSWER (from center of wheel to outside ring)
1. personality
2. internal dimensions
3. external dimensions
4. organizational dimensions"
"motivation - CORRECT ANSWER the psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-directed behavior
3 important components: intensity, direction, persistence"
"extrinsic reward - CORRECT ANSWER The payoff, such as money, that a person receives from others for performing a particular task"
"intrinsic reward - CORRECT ANSWER satisfaction a person receives from performing the particular task itself"
"sustainability - CORRECT ANSWER The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained"
"strategic planning - CORRECT ANSWER done by top managers"
"tactical planning - CORRECT ANSWER done by middle managers"
"operational planning - CORRECT ANSWER done by first-line managers"
"technical skills - CORRECT ANSWER the job-specific knowledge needed to perform well in a specialized field"
"conceptual skills - CORRECT ANSWER the ability to think analytically, to visualize an organization as a whole and understand how the parts work together"
"human skills (soft skills) - CORRECT ANSWER the ability to work well in cooperation with other people to get things done"
"historical perspective - CORRECT ANSWER classical, behavioral, and quantitative"
"scientific management - CORRECT ANSWER emphasized the scientific study of work methods to improve the productivity of individual workers
(Frederick W. Taylor)"
"Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - CORRECT ANSWER (bottom to top:) physiological, safety, social, esteem, self-actualization"
"theory X - CORRECT ANSWER -represents a pessimistic, negative view of workers
-workers are irresponsible, resistant to change, lack ambition, hate work, and want to be led"
"theory Y - CORRECT ANSWER -represents an optimistic, positive view of workers
-workers are considered capable of accepting responsibility, self-direction, self control and being creative"
"systems viewpoint - CORRECT ANSWER -regards the organization as a system of interrelated parts-collection of subsystems-part of the larger environment"
"contingency viepoint - CORRECT ANSWER emphasizes that a manager's approach should vary according to the individual and the environmental situation"
"evidence-based management - CORRECT ANSWER translating principles based on best evidence into organizational practice, bringing rationality to the decision-making process"
"triple bottom line - CORRECT ANSWER evaluates organizational performance on economic, social, and environmental criteria"
"internal stakeholders - CORRECT ANSWER employees, owners, board of directors"
"ethics - CORRECT ANSWER the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions"
"4 ethical approaches - CORRECT ANSWER utilitarian, individual, moral-rights, justice"
"utilitarian approach - CORRECT ANSWER guided by what will result in the greatest good for the greatest number of people"
"multinational corporation - CORRECT ANSWER global business firm with operations in several countries"
"ethnocentric managers - CORRECT ANSWER -"we know best"
-believe that their native country, culture, language and behavior are superior to all others"
"polycentric managers - CORRECT ANSWER -"they know best"
-take the view that native managers in the foreign offices best understand native personnel and practices, and so the home office should leave them alone."
"geocentric managers - CORRECT ANSWER accept that there are differences and similarities between home and foreign practices, and that they should use whatever techniques are most effective"
"major trading blocs - CORRECT ANSWER NAFTA and EU"
"planning - CORRECT ANSWER setting goals and deciding how to achieve them; coping with uncertainty by formulating future courses of action to achieve specified results"
"strategy - CORRECT ANSWER a large-scale action plan that sets the direction for an organization"
"mission statement - CORRECT ANSWER what is our purpose for being?"
"vision statement - CORRECT ANSWER what do we want to become?"
"standing plan - CORRECT ANSWER developed for activities that recur regularly over a period of time"
"single-use plan - CORRECT ANSWER plans developed for activities that are not likely to be repeated in the future"
"SWOT analysis - CORRECT ANSWER strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats"
"forecasting - CORRECT ANSWER a vision or projection of the future"
"benchmarking - CORRECT ANSWER a process by which a company compares its performance with that of high-performing organizations"
"the BCG matrix - CORRECT ANSWER a means of evaluating strategic business units on the basis of:
1. their business growth rates and
2. their share of the market (star, question mark, cash cow, and dog quadrant)"
"rational/classical decision making - CORRECT ANSWER assumes managers will make logical decisions that will be optimal in furthering the organization's best interest"
"intuition model - CORRECT ANSWER making a choice without the use of conscious thought or logical inference"
"nonrational/administrative decision making - CORRECT ANSWER assumes that decision making is nearly always uncertain and risky, making it difficult for managers to make optimal decisions"
"bounded rationality - CORRECT ANSWER suggests that the ability of decision makers to be rational is limited by numerous constraints"
"satisficing model - CORRECT ANSWER because of constraints, managers don't make an exhaustive search for the best alternative.Instead, managers seek alternatives until they find one that is satisfactory, not optimal"
"organizational culture - CORRECT ANSWER the set of values, ideas, attitudes, and norms of behavior that is learned and shared among the members of an organization"
"4 types of organizational culture - CORRECT ANSWER 1. clan
2. adhocracy
3. market
4. hierarchy"
"how employees learn culture - CORRECT ANSWER symbols, stories, heroes, rites and rituals"
"traditional: simple structure - CORRECT ANSWER has authority centralized in a single person, a flat hierarchy, few rules, and low work specialization"
"traditional: functional structure - CORRECT ANSWER people with similar occupational specialties are put together in formal groups"
"traditional: divisional structure - CORRECT ANSWER people with diverse occupational specialities are put together in formal groups by similar products or services, customers or clients, or geographic regions"
"traditional: matrix structure - CORRECT ANSWER an organization combines functional and divisional chains of command in a grid so that there are two command structures-vertical and horizontal"
"human resource management - CORRECT ANSWER consists of the activities managers perform to plan for, attract, develop, and retain an effective workforce"
"selection process - CORRECT ANSWER the screening of job applicants to hire the best candidate
(1. background info 2. interviewing 3. employee tests)"
"realistic job preview - CORRECT ANSWER gives candidate a picture of both positive and negative features of the job and the organization before he or she is hired"
"unstructured interview - CORRECT ANSWER no fixed set of questions and no systematic scoring ves asking probing questions to find out what the applicant is like"
"situational interviewing - CORRECT ANSWER focuses on hypothetical situations ("what would you do if...")"
"behavioral interviewing - CORRECT ANSWER explore what applicants have done in the past"
"civil rights act of 1964 - CORRECT ANSWER outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin"
"reactive vs proactive change - CORRECT ANSWER reactive: making changes in response to problems or opportunities as they arise
proactive: involves making carefully thought-out changes in anticipation of possible or expected problems or opportunities"
"adaptive change - CORRECT ANSWER least threatening; reintroduction of familiar practice"
"innovative change - CORRECT ANSWER somewhat threatening; introduction of a practice that is new to the organization"
"radically innovative change - CORRECT ANSWER very threatening; involves introducing a practice that is new to the industry"
"Lewin's change model - CORRECT ANSWER unfreezing, changing, refreezing"
"organizational development - CORRECT ANSWER set of techniques for implementing planned change to make people and organizations more effective"
"product innovation - CORRECT ANSWER change in the appearance or performance of a product or the creation of a new one"
"process innovation - CORRECT ANSWER change in the way a product is conceived, manufactured, or disseminated"
"resistance to change - CORRECT ANSWER an emotional/behavioral response to real or imagined threats to an established work routine"
"self-efficacy - CORRECT ANSWER one's sense of competence and effectiveness"
"locus of control - CORRECT ANSWER a person's tendency to perceive the control of rewards as internal to the self or external in the environment"
"cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER the psychological discomfort a person experiences between his or her cognitive attitude and incompatible behavior"
"content perspectives - CORRECT ANSWER theories that emphasize the needs that motivate people"
"process perspectives - CORRECT ANSWER concerned with the thought processes by which people decide how to act"
"Maslow's hierarchy of needs - CORRECT ANSWER (bottom to top)
physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization"
"McClelland's acquired needs theory - CORRECT ANSWER states that three needs - achievement, affiliation, and power - are major motives determining people's behavior in the workplace"
"Herzberg's two-factor theory - CORRECT ANSWER proposes that work satisfaction and dissatisfaction arise from 2 different factors: motivating and hygiene"
"equity theory - CORRECT ANSWER focuses on employee perceptions as to how fairly they think they are being treated compared with others"
"expectancy theory - CORRECT ANSWER suggests that people are motivated by two things: (1) how much they want something and (2) how likely they think they are to get it"
"instrumentality - CORRECT ANSWER the expectation that successful performance of the task will lead to the outcome desired"
"expectancy - CORRECT ANSWER belief that a particular level of effort will lead to a particular level of performance"
"valence - CORRECT ANSWER the value a worker assigns to an outcome"
"team vs. group - CORRECT ANSWER group- two or more individuals interacting who share norms, goals, and have common identity
team- small group of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, hold themselves mutually accountable"
"self-managed team - CORRECT ANSWER groups of workers who are given administrative oversight for their task domains"
"cross-functional team - CORRECT ANSWER include members from different areas within an organization"
"stages of team development - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Forming
2. Storming
3. Norming
4. Performing
5. Adjourning"
"group cohesiveness - CORRECT ANSWER tendency of a group or team to stick together, the "social glue" that holds team together"
"norms - CORRECT ANSWER general guidelines or rules of behavior that most group or team members follow"
"groupthink - CORRECT ANSWER a cohesive group's blind unwillingness to consider alternatives"
"devil's advocacy - CORRECT ANSWER a decision-making method in which an individual or a subgroup is assigned the role of critic"
"leadership - CORRECT ANSWER the ability to influence employees to voluntarily pursue organizational goals"
"5 sources of power - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Legitimate Power
2. Reward Power
3. Coercive Power
4. Expert Power
5. Referent Power"
"transformational leaders - CORRECT ANSWER employees are encouraged to pursue organizational goals over self-interests"
"the communication process - CORRECT ANSWER 1. sender
2. message
3. receiver
4. feedback"
"communication mediums - CORRECT ANSWER (from high to low medium richness)
face-to-face
video-conferencing
telephone
personal written media
non-personal written media"
"informal communication channels - CORRECT ANSWER grapevine and management by wandering around (MBWA)"
"physical barriers to communication - CORRECT ANSWER sound, time, space"
"semantic barriers to communication - CORRECT ANSWER when words matter, use of jargon"
"personal barriers to communication - CORRECT ANSWER individual attributes that hinder communication"
"nonverbal communication - CORRECT ANSWER how unwritten & unspoken messages may be read (eye contact, facial expressions, gestures)"
"digital communication - CORRECT ANSWER videoconferencing, telecommuting, and teleworking"
"using empathy - CORRECT ANSWER the ability to recognize and understand another person's feelings and thoughts; fosters open communication"
"active listening - CORRECT ANSWER -actively decoding and interpreting verbal messages
- typically only 20-50% of what we hear"
"listening styles - CORRECT ANSWER active, involved, passive, detached"
"steps in the control process - CORRECT ANSWER 1. establish standards
2. measure performance
3. compare performance to standards
4. take corrective action, if necessary"
"six areas of control - CORRECT ANSWER 1. physical
2. human resources
3. informational
4. financial
5. structural
6. cultural"
"the balanced scoreboard - CORRECT ANSWER gives top managers a fast but comprehensive view of the organization via four indicators:
1. customer satisfaction
2. internal processes
3. innovation and improvement activities
4. financial measures"
"fixed budget - CORRECT ANSWER allocates resources on the basis of a single estimate of costs"
"variable budget - CORRECT ANSWER allows the allocation of resources to vary in proportion with various levels of activity"
"balance sheet - CORRECT ANSWER summarizes an organization's overall financial worth - that is, assets and liabilities - at a specific point in time"
"income statement - CORRECT ANSWER summarizes an organization's financial results - revenues and expenses - over specified period of time"
"total quality management (TQM) - CORRECT ANSWER a comprehensive approach - led by top management and supported throughout the organization - dedicated to continuous quality improvement, training, and customer satisfaction"
"2 core principles of TQM - CORRECT ANSWER 1. people orientation- deliver customer value
2. improvement orientation- strive for continuous improvement"
"the keys to successful control systems - CORRECT ANSWER 1. strategic & results oriented
2. timely, accurate, & objective
3. realistic, positive, understandable & encourage self-control
4. flexible"
“management - CORRECT ANSWER integrating the work of people through POLC: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the organization's success"
"efficient - CORRECT ANSWER to use resources wisely and cost-effectively"
"effective - CORRECT ANSWER to achieve results, to make the right decisions and to successfully carry them out"
"competitive advantage - CORRECT ANSWER a set of unique features of a company and its products that are perceived by the target market as significant and superior to those of the competition"
"administrative management - CORRECT ANSWER concerned with managing the total organization
(Fayol & Weber)"
"bureaucracy - CORRECT ANSWER Weber believed it was a rational, efficient, ideal organization based off principles of logic"
"Hawthorne effect - CORRECT ANSWER employees worked harder if they received added attention, thought that managers cared about their welfare and that supervisors paid special attention to them
(Elton Mayo)"
"individual approach - CORRECT ANSWER guided by what will result in the individual's best long-term interests, which ultimately are in everyone's self-interest"
"moral-rights approach - CORRECT ANSWER guided by respect for the fundamental rights of human beings"
"justice approach - CORRECT ANSWER guided by standards of equity, fairness, and impartiality"
"social responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER a business's concern for society's welfare"
"globalization - CORRECT ANSWER the trend of the world economy toward becoming a more interdependent system"
"importing - CORRECT ANSWER a company buys goods outside the country and resells them domestically"
"exporting - CORRECT ANSWER a company produces goods domestically and sells them outside the country"
"licensing - CORRECT ANSWER a company allows a foreign company to pay it a fee to make or distribute the first company's product or service"
"franchising - CORRECT ANSWER a company allows a foreign company to pay it a fee and a share of the profit in return for using the company's brand name and a package of materials"
"SMART goals - CORRECT ANSWER Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Results-oriented
Target Dates"
"management by objectives (MBO) - CORRECT ANSWER 1. managers and employees jointly set objectives for the employee
2. managers develop action plans
3. managers and employees periodically review the employee's performance
4. the manager makes a performance appraisal and rewards the employee according to results"
"Porter's 5 competitive forces - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Threat of new entrants
2. Bargaining power of suppliers
3. Bargaining power of buyers
4. Threat of substitute products or services
5. Rivalry among competitors"
"Porter's 4 competitive strategies - CORRECT ANSWER 1. cost-leadership
2. differentiation
3. cost-focus
4. focused-differentiation"
"organization chart - CORRECT ANSWER a diagram that shows the structure of an organization, classifications of work and jobs, and the relationships among those classifications"
"mechanistic vs. organic structure - CORRECT ANSWER mechanistic: centralized hierarchy, many rules, specialized tasks, formalized communication, few teams, narrow span of control, taller structures
organic: decentralized hierarchy, few rules, shared tasks, informal communication, many teams, wide span of control, flatter structures"
"job analysis - CORRECT ANSWER determining the basic elements of a job by observation and analysis"
"job description - CORRECT ANSWER summarizes what the holder of the job does and how and why he or she does it"
"job specification - CORRECT ANSWER describes the minimum qualifications a person must have to perform the job successfully"
"recruitment - CORRECT ANSWER the process through which the organization seeks applicants for potential employment"
"the big 5 personality dimenstions - CORRECT ANSWER 1. extroversion
2. agreeableness
3. conscientiousness
4. emotional stability
5. openness to experience"
"traits of emotional intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER 1. self-awareness
2. self-management
3. social awareness
4. relationship management"
"organizational behavior - CORRECT ANSWER tries to help managers not only explain workplace behavior but also to predict it, so that they can better lead and motivate their employees to perform productively"
"values - CORRECT ANSWER abstract ideals that guide one's thinking and behavior across all situations"
"attitude & three components of attitude - CORRECT ANSWER a learned predisposition toward a given object.
1. affective- feelings/emotions
tive- beliefs/knowledge
ioral- how one intends or expects to behave toward situation"
"goal-setting theory - CORRECT ANSWER goals should be:
1. specific
2. challenging but achievable
3. linked to action plans
4. feedback enhances goal attainment
"SMART goals""
"4 types of reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER 1. positive reinforcement
2. negative reinforcement
3. extinction- decreases the frequency of a behavior through the contingent removal of pleasant consequence
4. punishment- decreases the frequency of a behavior through the contingent presentation of an unpleasant consequence"
"trait approach - CORRECT ANSWER attempts to identify personality characteristics or interpersonal attributes that can be used to differentiate leaders from followers"
"task-oriented leadership behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER to ensure that people, equipment, and other resources are used in an efficient way to accomplish the mission"
"relationship-oriented leadership - CORRECT ANSWER primarily concerned with the leader's interactions with his or her people"
"leader-member exchange (LMX) theory - CORRECT ANSWER emphasizes that leaders have different sorts of relationships with different followers"
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FGCU MAN 3025 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS & CORRECT ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATE
ALREADY GRADED A+
"diversity wheel - CORRECT ANSWER (from center of wheel to outside ring)
1. personality
2. internal dimensions
3. external dimensions
4. organizational dimensions"
"motivation - CORRECT ANSWER the psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-
directed behavior
3 important components: intensity, direction, persistence"
"extrinsic reward - CORRECT ANSWER The payoff, such as money, that a person receives
from others for performing a particular task"
"intrinsic reward - CORRECT ANSWER satisfaction a person receives from performing the
particular task itself"
"sustainability - CORRECT ANSWER The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A
sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained"
"strategic planning - CORRECT ANSWER done by top managers"
"tactical planning - CORRECT ANSWER done by middle managers"
"operational planning - CORRECT ANSWER done by first-line managers"
"technical skills - CORRECT ANSWER the job-specific knowledge needed to perform well in a
specialized field"
"conceptual skills - CORRECT ANSWER the ability to think analytically, to visualize an
organization as a whole and understand how the parts work together"
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, "human skills (soft skills) - CORRECT ANSWER the ability to work well in cooperation with
other people to get things done"
"historical perspective - CORRECT ANSWER classical, behavioral, and quantitative"
"scientific management - CORRECT ANSWER emphasized the scientific study of work
methods to improve the productivity of individual workers
(Frederick W. Taylor)"
"Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - CORRECT ANSWER (bottom to top:) physiological, safety,
social, esteem, self-actualization"
"theory X - CORRECT ANSWER -represents a pessimistic, negative view of workers
-workers are irresponsible, resistant to change, lack ambition, hate work, and want to be led"
"theory Y - CORRECT ANSWER -represents an optimistic, positive view of workers
-workers are considered capable of accepting responsibility, self-direction, self control and
being creative"
"systems viewpoint - CORRECT ANSWER -regards the organization as a system of
interrelated parts-collection of subsystems-part of the larger environment"
"contingency viepoint - CORRECT ANSWER emphasizes that a manager's approach should
vary according to the individual and the environmental situation"
"evidence-based management - CORRECT ANSWER translating principles based on best
evidence into organizational practice, bringing rationality to the decision-making process"
"triple bottom line - CORRECT ANSWER evaluates organizational performance on economic,
social, and environmental criteria"
"internal stakeholders - CORRECT ANSWER employees, owners, board of directors"
"ethics - CORRECT ANSWER the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in
making decisions"
"4 ethical approaches - CORRECT ANSWER utilitarian, individual, moral-rights, justice"
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