Question

15) What does being a manager offer to an employee? 15)

1. many rewards apart from money and status
2. few rewards due to the large amount of stress
3. not having to stretch his or her abilities
4. being exempt from some current laws
5. little apart from money and status

16) Arthur, a production manager, knows that some of his employees are upset with a new corporate policy that eliminates a tuition reimbursement program. As a result, some of these employees are reducing their productivity. To eliminate this behavior, Sal should A) carefully select workers according to their abilities and give workers training. place workers in any vacant position which focuses on their abilities. reduce the use of scientific principles in planning work methods. reduce training, but increase MBO. meet with each employee and coach him/her.	16)
17) Blue Brothers' cleaning products and equipment are sold to consumers and commercial cleaning companies in Clean Supply's janitorial supply and equipment store. Blue Brothers' relies heavily on Clean Supply to help sell its goods and services to customers. Clean Supply is a(n) ________ of Blue Brothers' products. subsidiary account ally customer distributor competitor	17)
18) Deondre, who owns an investment firm with customers worldwide, has witnessed how dangerous global economic interdependency can be. During a lunch meeting, he mentioned to a customer, "In my opinion, ________ have been two negative effects of global economic interdependency for the United States." other countries stealing U.S. technology and the loss of well-paying jobs in the United States a huge surplus of funds from global investments flowing into the United States and huge cost increases fewer organizations utilizing MBO and poorer-quality goods imported from abroad reduced foreign direct investment (FDI) into the United States and lower-quality goods being produced domestically more expensive goods being produced domestically and bigger markets for American imports	18)
19) The management of Computer Rescues, Inc. finalized the company's action plan for	19)

increasing its market share over the next few years. The management then set up a 12- month plan that defines how the organization will conduct its business based on the action plan, including clear sales targets for each week. The second plan is an example of a(n) ________ plan.

1. strategic
2. typical
3. dependent
4. facilities
5. operating

Answer 1

As per rules I am answering the first 4 subparts of the question

15A

A manager is responsible for ascertaining the rewards to be given to employees based on their performance. Also they are responsible for promoting the employee and hence a manager can give rewards and status to his employees.

16: E

Since the workers are upset because of withdrawal of the reimbursement program. The manager should coach every employee separately and enable the employees to understand the reason for the withdrawal. This is not related to training or abilities and hence the other options become irrelevant.

17: D

In this case, clean supply is a distributor of the company since it is in charge of distributing the products of the company. It is not a subsidiary of because it is not owned by Blue Brothers. It is neither an account ally not a customer or competitor of the company.

18: D

Reduced foreign direct investment (FDI) into the United States and lower-quality goods being produced domestically are both negative impacts on the American economy. Lesser foreign direct investment reduces the amount of investment in the American economy. Lower-quality of goods which are produced domestically increases the demand for imported goods which is again harmful for the economy.