MT&P Final Exam Review

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A market situation in which there are many buyers and sellers of a product and no single buyer or seller can control the price is
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When a manager allocates resources between different departments, he or she is acting in a decisional role.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the four resources used by business today?
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Staff managers provide support, advice, and expertise to line managers.
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Job sharing a system in which employees set their own work hours within certain limits set by the employer.
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A plan designed to increase the number of minority employees at all levels within an organization is called
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Whistle-blowing is an attempt by business to stop employees from exposing their unethical business behavior.
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The separation of a manufacturing process into distinct tasks is referred to as
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One major problem with the MBO process is that
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An argument for increased social responsibility is the fact that, because business managers are primarily responsible to business owners, they must be concerned with providing a return on the owner's investments.
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A general rise in the level of prices is called
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Corporate stock that has voting rights is referred to as _______ stock.
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Considering present employees as applicants for available positions is called
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The disadvantages of franchising mainly affect
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Well-managed cultural diversity is NOT LIKELY to
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5 points
The equity theory is MOST relevant to an employee's __________ in an organization?
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For a sole proprietorship and partnership, unlimited liability is a legal concept that holds a business owner personally responsible for all the debts of the business.
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Perhaps the MOST widely used selection technique is the employment test.
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The type of business ownership that combines the benefits of a corporation and a partnership while avoiding some of the restrictions and disadvantages of those forms of ownership is a(n)
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Working conditions in the early twentieth century were not much different from those that exist today, except for the more advanced technology involved.
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Motivation is the internal process that _____________, directs, and sustains behavior.
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5 points
Which of the following is an advantage of a corporation?
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A group of retired business people who volunteer their time to help small-business owners is known as
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The majority of small businesses are focused in the production industry.
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Employees at a chemical factory are systematically moved every two weeks among three different departments in the organization. This is called
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Attempting to attract job applicants from outside an organization is called
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Two or more people working together in a predetermined way to achieve common goals is known as a(n)
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A technique used to gather enough stockholder votes to control a targeted company is referred to as a
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A system of exchange in which goods or services are exchanged without using money is called
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The four phases of human resources management are acquiring, maintaining, development, and terminating.
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The way an employee feels about his or her job, superiors, and place of work is known as morale.
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The SBA is more likely to help non-minority small business.
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5 points
The Latin term, caveat emptor, means
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5 points
Perhaps the MOST humane method of reducing the size of a firm's workforce is through attrition.
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5 points
Ease of raising capital is a characteristic of which type of ownership?
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An organization's MOST important resources is its human resource.
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2 points
The most fundamental type of goal in an organization is its mission.
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Less than 50 percent of small businesses fail within the first five years.
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Today, there are more corporations than there are sole proprietorships and partnerships in the United States.
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A reduction of the value of a nation's currency relative to the currencies of other countries is called
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Determining a firm's future human resources needs is referred to as
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Of the four main resources available to management, perhaps the most important is the organization's financial resources.
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5 points
Many economists refer to the average level of output per worker per hour as
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The step that distributes responsibility and authority within an organization is called delegation.
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5 points
The activities involved in acquiring, maintaining and developing an organization's human resources are called
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2 points
Preferred stockholders are paid dividends before common stockholders.
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5 points
Which of the following is UNCHARACTERISTIC of low morale?
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Consumerism consists of all those activities that are undertaken to protect the rights of consumers in their dealings with business.
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There are fewer conflicts when the areas of responsibility for line managers and staff managers are clearly defined.
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5 points
Groups of senior and graduate students in business administration who provide management counseling are called