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Chapter 4 Perception, Attribution, and the Management of Diversity
1) When managers become aware of evidence of potential discrimination, they should do all of the following EXCEPT ________.
A) pay immediate attention to the problem
B) act proactively to address the potential problem
C) review the organization's policies and practices
D) treat the potential discriminator unfairly 2) ________ is whatever the perceiver is trying to make sense of.
A) The quandary
B) The situation
C) The target of perception
D) The paradigm of possibility
3) It is essential for managers to pay careful attention to how they perceive and judge employees for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ________.
A)
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This extracurricular anecdote may indicate that engineering hiring decisions are impacted by ________.
A) leniency bias
B) contrast effect
C) similar-to-me bias
D) halo effect
Chapter 5 Learning and Creativity
18) ________ is a relatively permanent change in knowledge or behavior that results from practice or experience.
A) Learning
B) Reconstruction
C) Behavior modification
D) Operant conditioning
19) In operant conditioning, learning occurs when the learner recognizes the link between ________.
A) a behavior and its consequences
B) a conditioned stimulus and its response
C) an antecedent and a successor
D) a negative reinforcement and its outcome
20) A teacher does not know how to handle one of her students. During her lessons, the student makes funny faces at her. The student is looking for attention from the teacher but disturbing nobody else in the class. Every time the student does this, the teacher stops the lesson and asks him why he is making faces. He doesn't answer her and continues to make the funny faces. The teacher wants to use positive reinforcement to encourage a change in this behavior. Which of the following is MOST LIKELY to change the behavior of this student with positive reinforcement?
A) The teacher pays attention to the student only when he raises his hand.
B) The teacher completely ignores the student.
C) The teacher gives stickers to all of the other students not
Give a school-based example of two of the following: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment, or extinction.
As a Naval Officer I had the opportunity to experience both leadership and management. Today's Navy operates with fewer people and resources than before. Therefore, leadership and management are more important than ever. Very early in my career I was taught leadership and as I advanced through the ranks I experienced management.
1. In relation to your current business environment (or one that you are familiar with), identify at least two different types of information technology that may be used when completing work tasks.
To organize and prioritize the current and future projects in the pipeline in a way that fits into the PMB budget of $5B, and ensures projects that increase sales, growth, and stockholder value are of top priority, whereas projects that are not beneficial are either put on hold or discarded.
3.4: Explain the importance of making sure equality and diversity procedures are followed in the workplace
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Now one must ascertain that such regulations would only be applied under certain governance systems- a good government; a government that is liable to the people. In such cases, there should be funds available for social programs. I will classify social programs as two types, based on how they should prioritizes allocation of funds:
3. In seeking to ensure conformance to EEO laws, what evidence of discrimination does the EEOC look for? In which areas of management is this most likely to occur?
C) Use positive reinforcement and praise when individual responds well and behaviour improves, hopefully enabling young person to develop and recognise themselves that the inappropriate behaviour is not rewarded or acceptable, hopefully making the occurrence of inappropriate behaviour less often.
3) How far should firms go to protect and accommodate employee differences in the workplace?
Select two issues requiring documentation and compare the systems used by each team member. What are the benefits and challenges of each system?
The implementing of the evidence-based practices is a difficult process. In order for the implementation to be successful, strategic planning and implementing must be in place to address the system complexity of the health care, which includes the individual practitioners and senior leaderships (Titler, 2008). Eventually, changing in health care culture leads the organization to be an evidence-based practices environment.
The world of business has undergone radical and dramatic changes in the last decade changes that present extraordinary challenges for the contemporary manager. A manager is an organizational member who is responsible for planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the activities of the organization so that the goals can be achieved. According to a widely referenced study by Henry Mintzberg, managers serve three primary roles: interpersonal, informational, and decision-making. Management is process of administrating and coordinating resources effectively and efficiently in an effort to achieve the goals of the organization.
Leading is defined and having to influence the people in the team to get the job done, molding the company and managing conflict and team communications
The company that is listed as number one on the Fortune 500 list is Wal-Mart. This company has much strength that makes it very interesting for investment. Wal-Mart was founded by Sam Walton in the 1950’s and faced competition among many regional discount stores. In 1962 Wal-Mart officially began with its first store in Rogers, Arkansas. Wal-Mart now has over 600 discount stores in the United States and stores located in 28 countries. No matter the size of the company its purpose has not changed over the years. Mr. Sam Walton said, “If we work together, we’ll lower the cost of living for everyone... we’ll give the world an opportunity to see what it’s like to save and have a better