Relish Inc. is a large corporation in the food industry that manufactures canned
foods, confectionery, and baked foods. The organization has a separate department
for each of these types of food manufactured. Each department integrates all the
activities required to manage its respective line...
Relish Inc. is a large corporation in the food industry that manufactures canned
foods, confectionery, and baked foods. The organization has a separate department
for each of these types of food manufactured. Each department integrates all the
activities required to manage its respective line of food. Which of the following types
of departmentalization is illustrated in the scenario?
A) Sequential
B) Customer
C) Product
D) Location
E) Functional
✓✓~ C
Venus Electronics has been negotiating with the owner of a new piece of property to
move some of its operations. When the property owner submitted his most recent
counter offer, he said that it was a final offer. The negotiator from Venus needs to
decide whether to accept or reject this offer. If it is a bluff, Venus may get the
,property at a better price. If it is not a bluff, Venus will need to resume its search for a
new site. The negotiator is making this decision in a condition of
A) risk.
B) certainty.
C) ambiguity.
D) pressure.
E) uncertainty.
✓✓~ A
At Delta Corp. the manufacturing and design department frequently consults with the
research and development department and the marketing and sales department
regularly interacts with the manufacturing and design department. This scenario
illustrates _____ at Delta.
A) Coordination
B) Delegation
C) job rotation
D) job specialization
✓✓~
,_____ is the process of grouping jobs according to some logical arrangement.
A) Job rotation
B) Departmentalization
C) Job enrichment
D) Centralization
E) Industrialization
✓✓~ B
_____ is the process by which a manager assigns a portion of his or her total
workload to others.
A) Micromanagement
B) Delegation
C) Synergy
D) Centralization
✓✓~ B
According to the job characteristics approach, increasing the presence of the five
dimensions it identifies will lead to all of the following EXCEPT
, A) higher motivation.
B) higher turnover.
C) higher-quality performance.
D) higher satisfaction.
E) lower absenteeism.
✓✓~ B
_____ encompasses the conversion processes used to transform inputs (such as
materials or information) into outputs (such as products or services).
A) Entropy
B) Technology
C) Synergy
D) Divestiture
✓✓~ B
In _____ technology, raw materials are transformed to a finished product by a series
of machine transformations in such a way that the composition of the materials
themselves is changed.
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