Management 360 - Management and Organizational Behavior 2 » Spring 2019 » Quiz 2

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Question #1
The Amazon Energy Budget System is a good example of:
A.   An exponential loop system
B.   A runaway loop system
C.   A balancing loop system
D.   A causal loop system
Question #2
A systems pattern where an external or internal force restricts the ability to expand a service or product offering is:
A.   Escalation
B.   Limits to growth
C.   Eroding goals
D.   Shifting the burden
Question #3
Price wars occur when one company lowers its prices to compete with another company in the same industry.  The other company ends up reducing its prices to compete, the first company responds in kind again, and so on, until both companies are losing profits.  This is a good example of which of the following systems archetypes?
A.   Limits to growth
B.   Escalation
C.   Tragedy of the commons
D.   Eroding goals
Question #4
The concept that any change to a system, whether from external forces of from intentional decisions, takes time to have an effect, is referred to as which of the following:
A.   Delay
B.   Spacing effects
C.   Continuity
D.   Incrementality
Question #5
_________________ may be described as the moral principles, values, and beliefs that govern group or individual behavior according to what is right or wrong.
A.   Duties
B.   Social responsibility
C.   Obligations
D.   Ethics
Question #6
_______________________ occurs when the company’s culture impacts employee behavior in ways that are consistent with the organization’s mission and values.
A.   Ethics-based management
B.   Vision-based management
C.   Mission-based management
D.   Values-based management
Question #7
Articles of Incorporation is a legal agreement between shareholders and management that determines the _________________________ of management in operating the organization.
A.   Fiduciary duty
B.   Standards of excellence
C.   Codes of conduct
D.   Social responsibility
Question #8
A company that decides to stop purchasing from a supplier in a developing country that uses child labor only after an organized boycott of their company causes a significant decline in revenues is applying which of the following approaches to social responsibility?
A.   Proactive
B.   Substantive
C.   Accomodative
D.   Transparent
Question #9
According to the text, which of the following is NOT one of the five aspirations that Clif Bar wishes to sustain?
A.   Product
B.   Planet
C.   Community
D.   Brands
Question #10
A methodology of analysis that managers use to understand interconnected cause-and-effect relationships that change organizational behaviors and dynamics is:,,
A.   Personal mastery
B.   Team learning
C.   Systems thinking
D.   Mental modes

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