Assignment:
1. Which of the following is an example of a force in the general environment?
A) customers
B) demographics
C) suppliers
D) competitors
2. The Canadian Human Rights Act is an example of a ________.
A) sociolegal condition
B) political/legal condition
C) political/sociological condition
D) sociocultural condition
3. The enhanced speed and quality of managerial decision making due to improvements in office automation is an example of the impact of which general environmental factor?
A) global
B) sociocultural
C) political
D) technological
4. Societies which highly value achievement would tend to be ________.
A) passive
B) excessively polite
C) competitive
D) uncertain
5. Which of the following is the step in the decision-making process that follows identifying a problem and decision criteria?
A) allocate weights to criteria
B) analyze alternatives
C) select an alternative
D) implement the alternative
6. Because managers can't possibly analyze all information on all alternatives, they accept solutions that ________ rather than ________ payoff.
A) maximize; satisfice.
B) maximize; minimize.
C) satisfice; minimize.
D) satisfice; maximize.
7. The utilitarian view of ethics is based on which of the following?
A) decisions based on their outcomes or consequences
B) the imposition and enforcement of fair and impartial rules
C) respect for and protection of individual liberties and freedoms
D) the process used to determine the distribution of resources
8. Under the ________ view of ethics, managers impose and enforce rules fairly and impartially and do so by following all legal rules and regulations.
A) theory of justice
B) integrative social contracts theory
C) rights
D) utilitarian
9. Formal planning typically leads to which of the following?
A) higher profits
B) lower productivity
C) higher sales, but lower profits
D) tension between different management levels
10. Which of the following best defines plans?
A) documents that identify company problems
B) documents that define goals
C) documents that describe how goals will be met
D) documents that identify how goals from the past were met
11. Which of the following defines the time frame of a long-term plan?
A) over seven years
B) over three years
C) under three years
D) over one year