Posted: May 12th, 2016

Managers who tend to be sociable, outgoing and friendly are frequently referred to a

1. When Wal Mart builds a distribution warehouse so that it can supply products to its stores within a 200 mile radius on almost a daily basis, we say that Wal Mart has achieved:
Empowerment
A competitive advantage
Increased quality
Increased innovation
None of the above

2. By assembling computers only after customers have paid them for, resulting in a lower finished goods inventory, Dell Computer Co. achieved:
Increased quality
A competitive advantage
Increased responsiveness
Increased innovation
None of the above

3. Successful managers demonstrate:
High extraversion and low negative affectivity
Low extraversion and high agreeableness
High openness to experience and low conscientiousness
High extraversion and low conscientiousness
Successful managers may have any combination of traits

4. The tendency of a person to feel good about himself or herself and the rest of the world is known as:
Conscientiousness
Openness to experience
The internal locus of control
Extroversion
The external locus of control

5. Managers who tend to be sociable, outgoing and friendly are frequently referred to as:
Extroverts
Negative affectives
Low in self esteem
Conscientious
High in external locus of control

6. All of the following are examples of instrumental values EXCEPT:
Independence
Responsibility
Inner harmony
Courage
Capability

7. All of the following are examples of instrumental values EXCEPT:
Ambitious
Helpful
Responsibility
Social recognition
Courage

8. Ray Kroc, McDonald s founder, insisted on __________, which became a competitive advantage for this firm.
Cleanliness
Technology
State of the art technology
Quality food
High wages for workers

9. A Company holds a party at the end of the fiscal year to celebrate its excellent performance. This is a rite of:
Passage
Integration
Celebration
Ceremony
Enhancement

10. A society that stresses living for the moment is said to have:
High power avoidance
Low power avoidance
Long term orientation
Short term orientation
Uncertainty avoidance