PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT LATEST EXAMS TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Why would an entrepreneurial business choose to use its own resources versus
seeking outside resources in financing a business venture?
a. To maintain control
b. To go public
c. To fuel large growth
d. To spread the risk - ✔✔to maintain control
✔✔What can managers do to encourage useful conflict during a meeting to lessen
inhibition about disagreeing and make the conflict less personal?
a. Promote affective conflict
b. Evaluate leadership style
c. Provide a devils advocate
d. Involve others in collaboration - ✔✔Involve others in collaboration
✔✔Which activity should management use to encourage intrapreneurship within an
organization?
a. Encourage employees to work on informal job assignments
b. Motivate employees by giving extra time off
c. Allow employees to form a union
d. Provide employees extra training opportunities - ✔✔Encourage employees to work
on informal job assignments
✔✔Which type of control system is being implemented when management uses prices,
profit centers, and exchange relationships as a control?
a. Clan control
b. Bureaucratic control
c. Dynamic control
d. Market control - ✔✔Market control
✔✔A store that has had a high rate of employee theft wants to use an employee
selection technique to hire new employees who are less likely to steal from them. Which
type of employee selection instrument is most appropriate in this situation?
a. Personality test
b. Validity test
c. Reliability test
d. Integrity test - ✔✔Integrity test
✔✔A corporation recently disbanded its flex time schedule for employees and now
requires that all employees work 9am to 6pm Monday through Friday. The employees
banded together in opposition of the change. What were the employees experiencing?
a. Apathy
b. Peer pressure
, c. Abilene paradox
d. Timing - ✔✔abilene paradox
✔✔The manager of the HR department at a corporation agreed to authorize one-hour
lunch breaks for all employees of the organization as long as the production manager
agreed to shorten the morning and afternoon breaks of all employees to 15 minutes.
Which approach were the managers using to enlist cooperation for the change?
a. Facilitation and support
b. Participation and involvement
c. Negotiation and reward
d. Education and communication - ✔✔Negotiation and Reward
✔✔controlling - ✔✔the management function of monitoring performance and making
needed changes
✔✔During a final job interview, the hiring manager asks candidates about age and
national origin. Some of the rejected candidates suspect they did not get the job
because of their age. Which law covers this type of discrimination?
a. Employment without Boundaries (EWB)
b. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
c. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
d. Fair Hiring of Employees Act (FHEA) - ✔✔equal employment opportunity (EEO)
✔✔A cooperation offers concrete incentives such as higher wages for cooperation with
change. Which strategy is the corporation using to overcome resistance to change?
a. Negotiation and reward
b. Participation and involvement
c. Facilitation and support
d. Education and communication - ✔✔Negotiation and Reward
✔✔organizing - ✔✔is assembling and coordinating the human, financial, physical,
informational and other resources needed to achieve goals
✔✔After a major budget increase, a company finds itself in a position to hire 50 new
employees. How can strategic HR planning benefit the company in this situation?
a. By initiating termination interviews to release unproductive employees
b. By coordinating company wide continuing education
c. By organizing staffing needs and looking for people with the right skills
d. By providing annual reviews of staff performances - ✔✔by organizing staffing needs
and looking for people with the right skills...
✔✔leading - ✔✔manamgement function that involves the managers efforts to
stimulatebe high performance by employees
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Why would an entrepreneurial business choose to use its own resources versus
seeking outside resources in financing a business venture?
a. To maintain control
b. To go public
c. To fuel large growth
d. To spread the risk - ✔✔to maintain control
✔✔What can managers do to encourage useful conflict during a meeting to lessen
inhibition about disagreeing and make the conflict less personal?
a. Promote affective conflict
b. Evaluate leadership style
c. Provide a devils advocate
d. Involve others in collaboration - ✔✔Involve others in collaboration
✔✔Which activity should management use to encourage intrapreneurship within an
organization?
a. Encourage employees to work on informal job assignments
b. Motivate employees by giving extra time off
c. Allow employees to form a union
d. Provide employees extra training opportunities - ✔✔Encourage employees to work
on informal job assignments
✔✔Which type of control system is being implemented when management uses prices,
profit centers, and exchange relationships as a control?
a. Clan control
b. Bureaucratic control
c. Dynamic control
d. Market control - ✔✔Market control
✔✔A store that has had a high rate of employee theft wants to use an employee
selection technique to hire new employees who are less likely to steal from them. Which
type of employee selection instrument is most appropriate in this situation?
a. Personality test
b. Validity test
c. Reliability test
d. Integrity test - ✔✔Integrity test
✔✔A corporation recently disbanded its flex time schedule for employees and now
requires that all employees work 9am to 6pm Monday through Friday. The employees
banded together in opposition of the change. What were the employees experiencing?
a. Apathy
b. Peer pressure
, c. Abilene paradox
d. Timing - ✔✔abilene paradox
✔✔The manager of the HR department at a corporation agreed to authorize one-hour
lunch breaks for all employees of the organization as long as the production manager
agreed to shorten the morning and afternoon breaks of all employees to 15 minutes.
Which approach were the managers using to enlist cooperation for the change?
a. Facilitation and support
b. Participation and involvement
c. Negotiation and reward
d. Education and communication - ✔✔Negotiation and Reward
✔✔controlling - ✔✔the management function of monitoring performance and making
needed changes
✔✔During a final job interview, the hiring manager asks candidates about age and
national origin. Some of the rejected candidates suspect they did not get the job
because of their age. Which law covers this type of discrimination?
a. Employment without Boundaries (EWB)
b. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
c. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
d. Fair Hiring of Employees Act (FHEA) - ✔✔equal employment opportunity (EEO)
✔✔A cooperation offers concrete incentives such as higher wages for cooperation with
change. Which strategy is the corporation using to overcome resistance to change?
a. Negotiation and reward
b. Participation and involvement
c. Facilitation and support
d. Education and communication - ✔✔Negotiation and Reward
✔✔organizing - ✔✔is assembling and coordinating the human, financial, physical,
informational and other resources needed to achieve goals
✔✔After a major budget increase, a company finds itself in a position to hire 50 new
employees. How can strategic HR planning benefit the company in this situation?
a. By initiating termination interviews to release unproductive employees
b. By coordinating company wide continuing education
c. By organizing staffing needs and looking for people with the right skills
d. By providing annual reviews of staff performances - ✔✔by organizing staffing needs
and looking for people with the right skills...
✔✔leading - ✔✔manamgement function that involves the managers efforts to
stimulatebe high performance by employees
