BUSI 340 BUSI340 Quiz 4 (Liberty University)

BUSI340 Quiz 4 (Liberty University)

1. Which of the following statements is true about scenario planning? 
2. Which of these represent the final step in the rational choice decision making process? 
3. Which of the following is an observation from organizational behavior that contradicts the rational choice paradigm assumptions? 
4. The benefits of employee involvement increase with:
5. An organization asks its employees to reframe the problems in a unique way and generate different approaches to the problems. Which of the following stages in the creative process would assist this? 
6. The concept of bounded rationality holds that: 
7. Availability heuristic refers to the tendency: 
8. Perceptual defense causes us to:
9. What effect do mental models have on the decision-making process? 
10. The Director of Nursing is looking throughout the hospital for a new format of a work schedule for nurses. She evaluates each schedule system as soon as she learns about it. Eventually, she finds a schedule that is "good enough" for her needs and ends her search even though there may be better schedules available that she hasn't yet learned about. The Director of Nursing is engaging in: 
11. __ is the tendency to experience stronger negative emotions when losing something of value than the positive emotions experienced when gaining something of equal value. 
12. The insight stage in the creative process: 
13. What do impromptu storytelling, morphological analysis, and artwork have in common? 
14. Which of these is also referred to as participative management? 
15. A nonprogrammed decision is applicable in any: 
16. Which of the following is true at the highest level of employee involvement?
17. During a meeting, senior executives of a consumer products company were addressing the problem of being late in detecting several consumer trends, such as the trend toward using see-through plastics in kitchenware. While trying to determine the source of this problem, one executive said: "The main problem here is that we need to find a better industrial design firm to design our products." Which of the following best describes the decision- making problem that this executive is exhibiting? 
18. Intuition relies on programmed decision routines that speed up our response to pattern matches or mismatches. These programmed decision routines are referred to as: 
19. Incubation and verification are the:
20. Which of the following decision-making activities tends to make the most use of tacit knowledge? 
21. Establishing a preset level at which the decision is abandoned or reevaluated is recommended mainly to: 
22. The first stage of the creative process is: 
23. Decision structure, risk of conflict, and decision commitment are the: 
24. One school of management thought states that organizational decisions and actions are influenced mainly by what attracts management's attention, rather than by the objective reality of the external or internal environment. Which of the following practices is closely associated with this argument? 
25. Which of the following involves listing different dimensions of a system and the elements of each dimension and then looking at each combination?