Question

AS 3;

Answer the 4 multiple choice questions and write a paragraph explain your selected answer.

Multiple Choice Chapter 6-7

Required/ Graded

Points: 3

1.

The act of oversight and direction for an organization is referred to as

A) corporate lawmaking.

B) centralized control.

C) organizational direction.

D) establishing norms.

E) governance.

2.

Which analytical tool determines the relative attractiveness of various strategies based on the extent to which key external and internal critical success factors are capitalized upon or improved?

A) BCG Matrix

B) SPACE Matrix

C) SWOT Matrix

D) IE Matrix

E) QSPM

3.

Which of the following is a management issue central to strategy implementation?

A) Devising policies

B) Revising reward and incentive plans

C) Minimizing resistance to change

D) Developing an effective human resources function

E) All of the above

4.

Which approach for managing and resolving conflict involves exchanging members of conflicting parties so that each can gain an appreciation of the other's point of view?

A) Avoidance

B) Resistance

C) Compliance

D) Defusion

E) Confrontation

AS2:

Answer the Multiple Choice Chapter 8-9   and provide a written paragraph to support your answer. (CLO 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2,3.4,3.5)

Required/ Graded

4 questions: CU 1.0

Points: 3

1. True or False

There are five component variables in the marketing mix: product, place, promotion, price, and people.

2. Tue or False

After segmenting markets so a firm can target particular customer groups, the next step is to find out what customer groups want and expect.

3. True or False

Too much emphasis on evaluating strategies may be expensive and counterproductive.

4.True or False

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, cost and threats should continually be monitored for change because it is not really a question of whether these factors will change, but rather when they will change and in what ways.

AS4:

Answer the Multiple Choice questions on Chapter and provide a written paragraph on your selection of answers. (CLO 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2,3.4,3.5)

Required/ Graded

1. It has become ________, since uniform standards defining environmentally responsible company actions are rapidly being incorporated into our legal landscape.

A) more and more difficult for firms to make "green" claims when their actions are not substantive or even true

B) increasingly easy for firms to get away with placing "green" terminology on their products without any oversight

C) customary for firms to use terms like "organic," "green," or "earth-friendly" when their products don't warrant it

D) more common for consumers to be cynical about corporate environmental claims

E) impossible for firms to omit "green" terminology from their labels

2.

All of the following business actions are considered to be unethical EXCEPT

A) moving jobs overseas.

B) preventing environmental harm.

C) overpricing.

D) sexual harassment.

E) insider trading.

3.

The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and a new provision in the Dodd-Frank financial regulation-law allows company employees who bring cases of financial fraud, such as bribery, to the government's attention to receive ________ percent of any sum recovered.

A) less than 10

B) exactly 20

C) up to 30

D) about 40

E) at least 50

4.

Japan is suffering from a decline in overall economic production

A) due to its growing population.

B) related to the declining age of its workforce.

C) because of a surge in the number of its taxpaying workers.

D) since worker productivity increases are not able to offset declines in number of workers.

E) because more and more women are working outside the home.

Japan is suffering from a decline in overall economic production

A) due to its growing population.

B) related to the declining age of its workforce.

C) because of a surge in the number of its taxpaying workers.

D) since worker productivity increases are not able to offset declines in number of workers.

E) because more and more women are working outside the home.

Answer 1

1) e) Governance

Because governance means an action or manner of governing an organization. That is oversight and direction of the organisation.

2) e) QSPM

Because stage 3 of QSPM determines the relative attractiveness of various strategies based on the extent to which key external and internal critical success factors are capitalized upon or improved. The relative attractiveness of each strategy is computed by determining the cumulative impact of each external and internal critical success factor.

3) e) all the above

Because devising policies, revising reward and incentives plan, minimizing resistance to change, and developing an effective human resources are management issue central for strategy implementation.

4) e) Confrontation

Because confrontation is exemplified by exchanging members of conflicting parties so each can gain an appreciation of the other's point of view, or by holding a meeting at which conflicting parties present their views and work through their differences.