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Question 1)Environmental complexity refers to the extent to which managers can understand or predict which environmental changes and trends will affect their businesses

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Question 1)Environmental complexity refers to the extent to which managers can understand or predict which environmental changes and trends will affect their businesses.

 

 

 

Question 2

?A court ruling against the wrongful dismissal of employees is a development in the _____ component of the general environment.

 

Question 3

?Sociocultural changes in behavior affect the demand for a business’s products and services.

 

 

Question 4

 

_____ is the process of having managers and employees perform new behaviors that are central to and symbolic of the new organizational culture that a company wants to create.?

 

Question 5

 

?Which of the following is a political/legal trend in the general environment of a hospital?

 

 

Question 6

 

?Opportunistic behavior focuses on establishing a mutually beneficial, long-term relationship between buyers and suppliers.

 

 

Question 7

 

?Which of the following statements is true of business confidence indices?

 

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Question 8

 

?Under the 1991 Civil Rights Act, if an employee is sexually harassed by anyone at work, the harasser—not the company—is liable for damages, attorneys’ fees, and back pay.

 

 

Question 9

 

?Which of the following statements is true of environmental uncertainty?

 

Question 10

 

?Identify a true statement about environmental uncertainty.

 

Question 11

 

?Which of the following is a component of the general environment of an organization?

 

Question 12

 

?Which of the following is the least aggressive tactic used by advocacy groups?

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Question 13

 

?The employees at Titanium Inc. have the freedom to plan their own schedules and are empowered to make decisions. They also believe in sharing common goals. The managers have high levels of trust in their employees and foster team work. These beliefs and attitudes constitute Titanium’s _____.

 

 

Question 14

 

?Opulent Inc., a furniture design company based in Winona, designs a wide range of office and household furniture. Umber Corp. has recently started offering custom-made furniture in the same city. The managers at Opulent are conducting a research to find out the strengths and weaknesses of Umber. The managers are also trying to figure out the strategies used by Umber. Which of the following is a component of the specific environment that is illustrated in the scenario?

 

 

Question 15

 

?An automobile manufacturing company has developed an electric car that uses sunlight to charge itself during movement. This new invention is a development in the _____ component of the general environment of the company.

 

 

Question 16

 

?_____ is the degree to which a company relies on a provider because of the importance of the provider’s product to the company and the difficulty of finding other sources of that product.

 

 

Question 17

 

?Managers feel confident that they can understand, predict, and react to the external forces affecting their businesses when:

 

 

Question 18

 

?In general, in a growing economy, more people are working and wages are growing, and therefore consumers have relatively more money to spend.

 

 

Question 19

 

?Herald Inc. has recently adopted the access card system to monitor employee movement within the company. This requires the employees to hold their identity cards against a RFID (radio-frequency identification) reader at each of the entry and exit doors for access. This process notes the time and date of entry and exit of a particular individual. The managers of the company have started enforcing the use of access cards among the employees. Which of the following concepts is illustrated in the scenario?

 

 

 

Question 20

 

?Which of the following is a sociocultural component in the general environment of a book publisher that can indirectly influence how it does business?

 

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