Practice Test Flashcards
The path-goal theory is closely related to which theory of motivation?
Expectancy theory since both require goals for subordinates and rewards for reaching those goals.
Which quality control refers to the inputs or outputs of a system?
Product quality control .
Which ratios measure the abilities of a organization to pay it’s short term debts?
Liquidity Ratios
Which ratio indicates if a company can pay off it’s short term debts without having to sell any of it’s inventory?
Quick Ratio
Best way to identify accounting irregularities in a companies records?
Indépendant audit since it’s unbiased and performed by someone from outside the company.
What occurs when an employee controls his own behavior without the need for outside control by his manager?
Self-reinforcement
An organization that tell’s its suppliers how to improve it’s raw materials is practicing what?
Feedforward control
Which aspect of Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) is a record of parts that are currently in its inventory?
Inventory Status File
Which ratio would show stakeholders how successful the business has been?
Profitability (performance) ratios
In the expectancy theory of motivation, the belief that attaining a desired level of performance will lead to a desired outcome is known as?
Instrumentality.
What type of sexual harassment occurs when employees are faced with a work environment they find personally offensive because of their gender?
Hostile work environment
Which needs are related to the nature of the work and the degree of challenge contained in the work
Motivator needs
Which measure how well managers of an organization are creating value from the organizations assets
Activity ratios
Just in time inventory control is an example of which type of inventory control system
A demand whole system because items are produced or ordered only one they are needed or pulled by the next stage in the production process.
Which operations controls become more important as the quality of the product being produced becomes more critical
Concurrent controls or screening controls focus on things that happen as inputs are being transformed into outputs.