Which of the following is the tendency to assign an


Question 1: Which of the following refers to the tendency to see one's own personal traits in other people?

  • Perceptual defense
  • Projection
  • Stereotyping
  • The halo effect
  • Figure-ground

Question 2: Which of the following is the tendency to assign an individual to a group or broad category and then to attribute widely held generalizations about the group to the individual?

  • Stereotyping
  • Projection
  • Figure-ground
  • The halo effect
  • Perceptual defense

Question 3: ____ is considered by many employees to be the most effective work-life practice.

  • Daily flextime
  • Offsite childcare
  • Work from home network
  • Telecommunication
  • Reduced work schedule

Question 4: Which of the following describes the last step in the perception process?

  • Observing information
  • Screening the information
  • Selecting what to process
  • Organizing the selected data into patterns
  • Transmitting the observed information

Question 5: The key assumption of Hersey and Blanchard's situational theory is that subordinates vary in their

  • readiness level.
  • satisfaction level.
  • level of commitment.
  • level of security.

Question 6: In general, research has found a(n) ____ relationship between personal traits and leader success.

  • strong
  • weak
  • positive
  • negative
  • inverse

Question 7: Which of the following types of leader is one who has the ability to motivate subordinates to transcend their expected performance?

  • Transactional
  • Charismatic
  • Traditional
  • Supportive
  • Team

Question 8: Two leadership styles used by Fiedler in his contingency theory were

  • employee-centered and job-centered.
  • consideration and initiating structure.
  • concern for people and concern for production.
  • relationship-oriented and task-oriented.
  • employee-oriented and relations-oriented.

Question 9: Which of the following refers to the degree to which an employee performs a total job with a recognizable beginning and ending?

  • Task complexity
  • Task identity
  • Task significance
  • Task structure
  • None of these

Question 10: According to Maslow, the highest order needs are

  • self-actualization needs.
  • physiological needs.
  • esteem needs.
  • belongingness needs.
  • safety needs

Question 11: Alderfer referred to the needs for physical well being as ____ needs.

  • physiological
  • existence
  • belongingness
  • relatedness
  • growth

Question 12: ____ describe the most basic human physical needs, including food, water and oxygen.

  • Self-actualization needs
  • Physiological needs
  • Esteem needs
  • Belongingness needs
  • Safety needs

Question 13: ___ focus on employee learning of desired work behaviors.

  • Contingency theories
  • Situational theories
  • Content theories
  • Process theories
  • Reinforcement theories

Question 14: What are the key elements of communication?

  • Encoding, message, and feedback
  • Encoding, noise, and symbols
  • Message, circuit, and decoding
  • Feedback, message, and perception
  • Feedback, circuit, and perception

Question 15: Communication is defined by the text as the process by which information is

  • shared.
  • exchanged and understood by two or more people, usually with the intent to motivate or influence behavior.
  • received.
  • transmitted to others.
  • stored.

Question 16: Which of these is the richest medium for communication?

  • Telephone conversations
  • Face to face contact
  • Electronic media
  • Written media
  • Voice mail

Question 17: The grapevine is an important means of communication that exists in companies. Most of the information passed through the grapevine is

  • personal information.
  • vicious gossip.
  • business-related.
  • destructive because it is not accurate.

Question 18: ____ is the extent to which team members are attracted to the team and motivated to remain in it.

  • Norming
  • Commitment
  • Caring
  • Cohesiveness

Question 19: ____ is a role in which the individual provides support for team members' emotional needs.

  • A task specialist role
  • A dual role
  • A nonparticipator role
  • A socioemotional role

Question 20: ____ is a collaborative approach to negotiation that is based on a win-win assumption, whereby the parties want to come up with a creative solution that benefits both sides of the conflict.

  • BATNA
  • A bargaining zone
  • Mediation
  • Integrative negotiation
  • Distributive negotiation

Question 21: There are two types of roles that emerge in teams. They are the ____ role and the ____ role.

  • task specialist, socioeconomic
  • generalists, socioeconomic
  • task specialist, socioemotional
  • generalists, socioemotional
  • socioemotional, socioeconomic

Question 22: Which of the following is a ratio that measures the firm's internal performance with respect to key activities defined by management?

  • A liquidity ratio
  • An activity ratio
  • Return on total assets
  • A current ratio
  • Profit margin on sales

Question 23: ____ indicators focus on production and operating statistics.

  • Financial performance
  • Business process
  • Critical success
  • Potential for learning and growth
  • Performance measurement

Question 24: Which of the following is a control system that measures performance in terms of after-tax profits minus the cost of capital invested in tangible assets?

  • Open-book management
  • Economic value-added system
  • Activity-based costing
  • Inappropriate control system

Question 25: The ____ offers some indication of the degree to which various countries are open regarding economic matters.

  • Opacity Index
  • Economic Index
  • Clarity Index
  • National Index
  • Foreign Economy Index

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