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John, a product manager, ensures that his team has regular meetings and no team member is absent during the meetings. He also ensures that all the members of his team work together in all the projects the company receives. John has modified the workplace accordingly to facilitate teamwork. In this scenario, John is attempting to increase his team's _____.

Select one:

a. autonomy

b. norms

c. productivity

d. cohesiveness

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Which of the following is true of the S-curve pattern of innovation of a product?

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a. A flat slope indicates that small amounts of effort will result in significant increases in technological performance.

b. A flat slope indicates that increased effort brings only small improvements in technological performance.

c. A steep slope near the endpoint of the curve indicates that the performance limits of that particular technology are being reached.

d. A steep slope at the midpoint of the curve indicates that further efforts to develop this particular technology will result in only small increases in performance.

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Which of the following statements best explains the carrot-and-stick approach of the U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines for Organizations?

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a. Organizations accused of unethical behavior are excused if the management was unaware of such behavior.

b. Nonprofit organizations are exempted from fines.

c. Smaller fines are imposed on companies that take proactive steps to encourage ethical behavior.

d. Unincorporated organizations and associations are exempted from penalties.

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In the context of managing resistance to change, which of the following is an error that managers make in the change phase?

Select one:

a. They do not create a powerful enough coalition.

b. They lack vision.

c. They overlook victory after the first large-scale success.

d. They do not establish a great enough sense of urgency.

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Cardwire Inc. has decided to lower the price of all its products to keep up with its competitors. To achieve this, the company needed to lower its overall costs. However, the procurement department at Cardwire has been spending twice its allotted budget to buy raw materials. Which of the following best illustrates the situation at Cardwire?

Select one:

a. Strategic dissonance

b. Price fixing

c. Competitive inertia

d. Job deskilling

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Which of the following is not one of the four major functions of management?

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a. Cooperating

b. Planning

c. Leading

d. Organizing

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Managers can use overt integrity tests to _____.

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a. select and hire ethical employees

b. differentiate between the ethics of primary and secondary stakeholders

c. assess the ethical intensity of an issue

d. reinforce the ethical principle of individual rights

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Which of the following is a similarity between job descriptions and job specifications?

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a. Both list the basic tasks, duties, and responsibilities required of an employee holding a particular job.

b. Both refer to the planned sequences of jobs through which employees may advance within an organization.

c. Both are important results of a job analysis.

d. Both are used after the completion of the recruitment process.

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Camila is a new employee at Dario Enterprises and is undergoing training. A senior employee from her team is assigned the task of mentoring Camila. Camila learns by watching her mentor perform various tasks and by working on simple tasks alongside her mentor. Which of the following training methods has Dario Enterprises adopted to train Camila?

Select one:

a. Vestibule training

b. Role-playing

c. On-the-job training

d. Simulations

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When Jane appeared for an interview at Incogyn Inc., she was promised a monthly pay of $7,500 after all tax deductions. However, after her first month at work, she received only $7,230. She filed a suit against the company on the grounds of misrepresentation of information, and the company incurred losses because of the amount it had to pay as fine. In the context of the general environment, this scenario best illustrates the effect of the _____ on organizations.

Select one:

a. technological component

b. geographical component

c. legal component

d. sociocultural component

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All of the following represent disadvantages of group decision making with the exception of:

Select one:

a. Generating limited alternative solutions

b. Takes too long

c. groupthink

d. A few people dominating group discussions

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If managed properly, the shift from surface- to deep-level diversity can accomplish two things:

Select one:

a. reduction in prejudice and social integration.

b. openness to experience and the glass ceiling effect.

c. social integration and an ethnocentric work environment.

d. gender-based discretion and openness to experience.

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***As per Chegg Answering Guidelines and Policy, we are allowed to answer a maximum of four questions (or parts) in a single attempt. As in this questions, more than four parts are there, to not to violate the policy, I have answered the first four questions only. Please post the rest in another question to get the answer.

Question – 74:

Answer is: (d) Cohesiveness

Explanation: as john is trying to make everyone wotk together, this is an attempt to increase the cohesiveness.

Autonomy means making everyone work indpependently. Norms is about following particular rules and regulations and increasing its implementation. Productivity may or may not increase by making everyone work together.

Question – 75:

Answer is: (b) A flat slope indicates that increased effort brings only small improvements in technological performance.

Explanation: In a S-curve pattern the slope indicates performance to time ratio. So, If the slope is flat (means less), it means performance is low. Hence the improvement is small.

Question – 76:

Answer is: (c) Smaller fines are imposed on companies that take proactive steps to encourage ethical behavior.

Explanation: According to carrot and stick approach (reward or puishment), the fines are small.

Question – 77:

Answer is: (b) They lack vision.

Explanation: Lack of vision is one of the dangerous error that managers make in change phase.

Not creating a powerful coalition, overlooking victory and not establishing a sense of urgency are not errors they do. It helps the managers.

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