Mgt 420 - Quiz 4 99 Correctly Answered Questions Latest Update

Profit Sharing {Ans: rewards employees for increased organizational profits}Job Design {Ans: process through which managers plan and specify job tasks and the work arrangements that allow them to be accomplished}Sagas, Rites, & Rituals {Ans: Sagas - Heroic accounts of organizational accomplishments. Rites - Standardized and recurring activities that are used at special times to influence the behaviors and understanding of organizational members. Rituals are systems of rites.}Recruiting {Ans: attracting qualified job applicants to the organization}Managing Organizational Culture {Ans: A management philosophy links key goal-related issues with key collaboration issues to come up with general ways by which the firm will manage its affairs.}inventory control {Ans: Inventory controls reduce inventory costs Economic order quantity Pre-determined amount of inventory is ordered when current inventory reaches a certain level Just-in-time scheduling Inventory arrives exactly when needed for production or sale}Counterculture {Ans: Groups whose patterns of values and philosophies outwardly reject those of the larger organization or social system.}Thompson and Woodward's View of Technology {Ans: James D. Thompson Based on the degree which technology could be specified under Intensive technology Mediating Technology Long-linked Technology Joan Woodward's Based on three categories Small-batch Mass production Continuous process manufacturing}Intrinsic