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Which of the following defines sense-making?
a) the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalize what
people are doing.
b) how things are done, or expected to be done, in particular organisations
c) ensuring that everyone understand the same thing in exactly the same way
d) all of the above - ANSWER a) the ongoing retrospective development of
plausible images that rationalize what people are doing.
Organizations help to shape the _______ of the person working within them.
a) identity
b) spending patterns
c) consumption patterns
d) all of the above - ANSWER a) identity
What does managing mean?
a) Coping, getting by, just about staying afloat
b)An active, relational practice which involves doing things to contribute to the
achievement of the organisation's formal goals
c) Applying formal management models in action
d) None of the above - ANSWER b) An active, relational practice which involves
doing things to contribute to the achievement of the organisation's formal goals
What are organisations?
a) Buildings that we work in
,b) places in which people have lunch
c) systematically arranged frameworks relating people, things, knowledge and
technologies, in a design intended to achieve specific goals
d) systematically arranged technologies intended to achieve specific goals if people
do as they are instructed or told - ANSWER c) systematically arranged frameworks
relating people, things, knowledge and technologies, in a design intended to
achieve specific goals
Which of the following are characteristics of organisations?
a) purposes, objectives, and goals
b) structure, culture, communication processes and human resource problems
c) systematic ordering in a hierarchy of actions
d) all of the above - ANSWER d) All of the above
What is the consequence for a company becoming global?
A) the more likely a company is to lose its own identity within a tangle of other
companies, alliances and markets
B) the more likely a company is to ensure strong branding and culture to maintain
its identity in foreign markets
C) the more likely it is that company must form alliances
D) all of the above - ANSWER A) the more likely a company is to lose its own
identity within a tangle of other companies, alliances and markets
which of the following is a plausible example of national states' still having control
over globalization?
A) poor nations have effectively resisted globalization by constantly refusing to
reduce tax, occupational health and safety, industrial relations, and environmental
barriers and regulations expected by global firms
B) digitalization drives globalization, making digital data easily available anywhere
in the world, but national laws limit its reproduction
,C) nation states now actively avoid globalization by refusing to trade beyond their
own national boundaries, thus rendering global firms useless
D) all of the above - ANSWER B) digitalization drives globalization, making
digital data easily available anywhere in the world, but national laws limit its
reproduction
a fundamental tension exists between national governments and transnational
companies, that tension being that _________.
A) governance of the corporation, especially as a taxable entity, can frequently cut
across governments of the territories within which it operates
B) many of the governments of the territories within which a corporation operates
are corrupt, so the corporation operates under conditions of bribery and politics
C) there is always the possibility that the corporate friendly conservative
governments might be overthrown by anti globalization socialist parties
D) both a and c - ANSWER A) governance of the corporation, especially as a
taxable entity, can frequently cut across governments of the territories within which
it operates
what changes has globalization brought to labor markets?
A) it creates a symbiotic demand for high value expert jobs as well as service work
B) it has made wage costs, everywhere, more costly
C) it has driven down wage costs across the globe
D) it has led the deskilling of labor as global firms search for the cheapest wage
costs - ANSWER A) it creates a symbiotic demand for high value expert jobs as
well as service work
call center workers are a good example of __________?
A) grunge workers
B) creative workers
C) expert symbolic analysts
, D) modern factory workers - ANSWER D) modern factory workers
what does your textbook claim about the relationship between globalization and
identity?
A) everybody becomes like everyone else
B) people become more aware of different ways of expressing themselves
C) globalization causes people to lose identity and creates depression
D) everyone becomes more revolutionary as they resist globalization - ANSWER
B) people become more aware of different ways of expressing themselves
what is meant by NSM (new social movements)?
A) research and theory that argues for the importance of identity politics in the
global era
B) organizations that often use the tools of globalization, to resist globalization,
such as S11
C) new cultures and political movements that have emerged in response to
globalization
D) all the above - ANSWER D) all the above
what is a paradoxical outcome of globalization?
A) that, as the world globalizes more and more, people are traveling less and less
B) that those who resist globalization the most are those that benefit from it the
most
C) that there is a concentration of talent in clusters of world class expertise in
specialist industries in different local economies around the world rather than a
global diffusion of expertise
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