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MBA 704 Chapter 8 Exam Questions with Correct Answers (Already Graded A+) Description and Usefulness - Answer- •Objective performance information, not critical judgments Timeliness and Readiness - Answer- •Given immediately and to employees ready to receive it Clarity and Validity - An...

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MBA 704 Chapter 8 Exam Questions
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Description and Usefulness - Answer- •Objective performance information, not critical
judgments

Timeliness and Readiness - Answer- •Given immediately and to employees ready to
receive it

Clarity and Validity - Answer- Easily understood by the employee and accurate
information

Generation X and Y Communication Suggestions - Answer- •X= less face to face
meetings; Y= integrated use of social networks

•X= more telecommuting; Y= less focus on desk time and more on productivity

Downward - Answer- •between managers and employees

Upward - Answer- between managers and top managers above them in the
organization

Horizontal - Answer- •between employees at same level across organization

Interactive Communication - Answer- •Communication at macro, organizational level

•Includes departmental or interdepartmental meetings

May involve the use of teams and web conferencing

Purposes of Interactive Communication - Answer- •Task coordination

•Problem solving

•Information sharing

•Conflict resolution

, Informal Organization - Answer- -Allows for informal contact with others on same level

-Primary method of interactive communication

-Hallway Communcation

Hallway Communication: - Answer- -Takes away sense of hierarchy

-Makes participants seem more equal

-Invites different people to join in with multiple perspectives

Grapevine - Answer- •Also known as the rumor mill

•Can be much faster than the formal communication system

•Information difficult to manage

•May promote personal goals that are not compatible with organizational goals

Decision Making - Answer- •Process of choosing between alternatives

Three Major Phases (Simon) - Answer- •Intelligence, Design, and Choice Activities

•Identify conditions needing decision making, identify and analyze courses of action,
and select course of action

Stages of Decision Making (Mintzberg) - Answer- •Identification- Recognition of the
problem

Development- Search for previous solution or design of new solution

Selection- Selection of preferred solution

Behavioral Decision Making - Answer- •Does not operate under the assumptions of
rationality and certainty

•Based on idea that Individuals have cognitive limitations and they must act in situations
where uncertainty prevails and in which information is often ambiguous and incomplete

Decision Rationality - Answer- •If appropriate means are chosen to reach desired ends,
the decision is said to be rational; difficult to separate means/ends


Different types of rationality can justify means-ends chain

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