MGT 291 CORE MAIN EXAMINATION QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Culture - ✔✔set of shared values, often taken for granted, that help people in a
group, organization, or society understand which actions are considered acceptable and
which deemed unacceptable
✔✔Individualism - ✔✔people in a culture define themselves primarily as individuals
rather than as part of one or more groups or organizations
✔✔Collectivism - ✔✔Characterized by tight social frameworks in which people tend in
base their identities on the group or organization to which they belong
✔✔Power distance - ✔✔the extent to which people accept as normal an unequal
distribution of power
✔✔Uncertainty avoidance - ✔✔the extent to which people feel threatened by unknown
situations and prefer to be in clear and unambiguous situations
✔✔Masculinity - ✔✔the dominant values in a society emphasize aggressiveness and
the acquisition of money and other possessions as opposed to concern for people,
relationships among people, and overall quality of life.
, ✔✔Long-term values - ✔✔Include focusing on the future, working on projects that have
a distant payoff, persistence, and thrift
✔✔Short-tern goals - ✔✔More oriented toward the past and the present and include
respect for traditions and social obligations
✔✔Global perspective - ✔✔A willingness to be ope to and learn form the alternative
systems and meanings of other people and cultures, and a capacity to avoid assuming
that people form everywhere are the same
✔✔Technology - ✔✔methods used to create products, including both physical goos and
intangible services,
✔✔Manufacturing - ✔✔A form of business that combines and transforms resources into
tangible outcomes that are them sold to others
✔✔Service organization - ✔✔one that transforms resources into an intangible output
and creates time or place utility for its customers
✔✔Ethics - ✔✔person's beliefs regarding what is right or wrong in a given situation
✔✔Corporate governance - ✔✔refers to the oversight of a public corporation by its
board of directors
✔✔Social Responsibilities - ✔✔Businesses living and working together for the common
good and valuing human dignity
✔✔Knowledge workers - ✔✔Those employees who add value in an organization simply
because of what they know
✔✔Outsourcing - ✔✔hiring other firms to do work previously performed by the
organization itself; when this work is moved overseas
✔✔Offshoring - ✔✔Outsourcing to workers in another country
✔✔Contingent worker - ✔✔A person who works for an organization on something other
than a permanent or full-time basis
✔✔tiered workforce - ✔✔When one group of an organization's workforce has a
contractual arrangement with the organization objectively different from another group
performing the same jobs
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Culture - ✔✔set of shared values, often taken for granted, that help people in a
group, organization, or society understand which actions are considered acceptable and
which deemed unacceptable
✔✔Individualism - ✔✔people in a culture define themselves primarily as individuals
rather than as part of one or more groups or organizations
✔✔Collectivism - ✔✔Characterized by tight social frameworks in which people tend in
base their identities on the group or organization to which they belong
✔✔Power distance - ✔✔the extent to which people accept as normal an unequal
distribution of power
✔✔Uncertainty avoidance - ✔✔the extent to which people feel threatened by unknown
situations and prefer to be in clear and unambiguous situations
✔✔Masculinity - ✔✔the dominant values in a society emphasize aggressiveness and
the acquisition of money and other possessions as opposed to concern for people,
relationships among people, and overall quality of life.
, ✔✔Long-term values - ✔✔Include focusing on the future, working on projects that have
a distant payoff, persistence, and thrift
✔✔Short-tern goals - ✔✔More oriented toward the past and the present and include
respect for traditions and social obligations
✔✔Global perspective - ✔✔A willingness to be ope to and learn form the alternative
systems and meanings of other people and cultures, and a capacity to avoid assuming
that people form everywhere are the same
✔✔Technology - ✔✔methods used to create products, including both physical goos and
intangible services,
✔✔Manufacturing - ✔✔A form of business that combines and transforms resources into
tangible outcomes that are them sold to others
✔✔Service organization - ✔✔one that transforms resources into an intangible output
and creates time or place utility for its customers
✔✔Ethics - ✔✔person's beliefs regarding what is right or wrong in a given situation
✔✔Corporate governance - ✔✔refers to the oversight of a public corporation by its
board of directors
✔✔Social Responsibilities - ✔✔Businesses living and working together for the common
good and valuing human dignity
✔✔Knowledge workers - ✔✔Those employees who add value in an organization simply
because of what they know
✔✔Outsourcing - ✔✔hiring other firms to do work previously performed by the
organization itself; when this work is moved overseas
✔✔Offshoring - ✔✔Outsourcing to workers in another country
✔✔Contingent worker - ✔✔A person who works for an organization on something other
than a permanent or full-time basis
✔✔tiered workforce - ✔✔When one group of an organization's workforce has a
contractual arrangement with the organization objectively different from another group
performing the same jobs
