Chapter Ten - Int'l Business Review

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Although successful managers possess a wide variety of conceptual, technical, and interpersonal abilities, they tend to have a common core of important personal characteristics

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TRUE

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No one managerial style is best in all circumstances

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TRUE

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Individual employees always conform to the standards of their cultural groups

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FALSE

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The participative manager gives employees both authority and responsibility

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TRUE

Front 5

A virtual corporation comprimises "the best of the best" units

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TRUE

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Autocratic, participative, and free-rein managers use power differently

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TRUE

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The autocratic style of management is usually the style empolyees work best under.

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FALSE

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Every culture and subculture has norms for the behaviors of its members

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TRUE

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Workers in every culture regard permanence of employment very highly and prefer not to look for new opportunities.

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FALSE

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Managers who consider the values, beliefs, and assumptions of the culture and subculture rather than those of individuals are generally the most successful in the global business

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FALSE

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Line positions are managerial, but staff positions are not.

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TRUE

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Most organizations today are tall because so many managers are needed to accomplish complex goals.

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FALSE

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A company with several different departments should always organize by function

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FALSE

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The number of managers a business needs depends on the size of the business and the complexity of its operations

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TRUE

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In an international corporation a parent company provides an organizational structure of local, national, or regional subsidiaries that are usually responsible for decision making and customer service

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TRUE

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The free-rein manager

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exists primarily as a contact person for outsiders

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Argo Inc., is a global corporation with Asian, European, and North American divisions. From this information, you can infer it is organized by

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geography

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Juliette supervises three printing-press operators at the local newspaper. Juliette is a

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front-line manager

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Span of control refers to

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the number of employees that a manager supervises.

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A will-constructed organizational chart documents

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all the departmental relationships within the organization.

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A flat organization

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has few levels of management

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In the managerial sense, delegating is

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transferring authority and responsibility.

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Leadership can be described as

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the ability to get others to follow

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A manager who usually completes projects by odering employees to do certain tasks but does not tell the employees how the tasks contribute to the project is

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an autocratic manager

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All of the following are actions that a participative manager would take except

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give employees the opportunity to learn on their own and supply their own motivation

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All of the following are examples of the controlling function of management EXCEPT

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motivating employees

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A company that is organized into seperate divisions for paper products, plastic products, and metal products is an example of

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organization by product

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Lines of authority...

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indicate who is responsible to whom and for what

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All of the following are characteristics needed by managers of the future global corporation EXCEPT

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able to make quick decisions without regard to consequences for other managers.

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Managers who centralize power and tell employees what to do are ________ managers?

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autocratic

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Managers who avoid the use of power and let employees establish their own goals and monitor their own progress are ________ managers

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free-rein

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A company organized into manufacturing, customer service, and human resources departments is organized by __________.

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function

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A publishing company that is organized into book, magazine, and newspaper departments is organized by ____________?

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product

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A company that is organized into northern, southern, and central divisions is organized by _____________?

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geography

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The number of employees that a manager supervises is referred to the ___________

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span of control

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Managers need to understand the __________________ so that they know what they are responsible for and whom they report to.

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lines of authority

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The amount of the authority and responsibility that is delegated to employees or to organizational units is called the degree of __________?

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centralization

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An organization that has many levels of management is described as being __________,

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Tall

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Managers who decentralize power and share it with employees as they work together to achieve goals are _____________ managers.

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participative

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All of the following statements descrive behviors that could be influenced by cultural differences EXCEPT

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Oki Komuro does not like to work in an office that is not air conditioned