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Management
Connect answers Quiz 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following is an example of an informational resource control? | a competition analysis |
| Britta is trying to measure her salon's productivity during the first quarter. For this period, she should divide _______ by the costs of her staff, loans, materials and utility bills. | the total salon services and products sold |
| Managers can increase overall productivity by increasing the efficiency of all the following except _____. | goals |
| Michele manages employees at Maui Tours. She has noticed that one of her employees submits via the computer the same suggestions for improvement multiple times, knowing that performance is evaluated on the nr of suggestions. This problem is typical of: | bureaucratic control. |
| Which of the following is not a financial control? | RATER |
| Which balanced scorecard perspective helps top management's judgment to be better linked to measures of employee actions at lower levels? | internal business perspective |
| ROI is a(n) _____. | return ratio |
| Which of the following is not one of the reasons that control is needed in an organization? | to eliminate the need for teamwork |
| At UPS, delivery ______ vary according to whether a route is urban, suburban, or rural in nature | standards |
| Which of the following may be done as corrective action in the control process? | evaluate performance and take action |
| Which of the following is not characteristic of an external audit? | primarily used when management suspects embezzlement |
| Kim, a customer service manager, tracks monthly complaints and has been trying over the past six months to reduce complaints to less than 0.2% through additional training for her staff. She is engaged in _____. | controlling |
| Which of the following is not a purpose of a manager? | increase globalization |
| Productivity equals _____. | goods and services produced, divided by labor, capital, energy, and materials |
| Profits or losses incurred by an organization are represented in its _____. | income statement |
| Current assets, fixed assets, and liabilities are all part of an organization's _____. | balance sheet |
| One characteristic of incremental budgeting is that it _____. | locks managers into stable spending arrangements |
| Examining how the organization looks to shareholders is part of which of the balanced scorecard perspectives? | financial perspective |
| All of the following are reasons why performance falls significantly short of the standard except _____. | unawareness of performance drop |
| Techniques for improving quality include all of the following except _____. | market share |