Exam 16: Building a Team and Management Succession

Companies desiring to improve their recruitment efforts are finding that the Internet offers tremendous reach at a relatively low cost and is very effective.

In job enrichment, ________ is the degree to which a job allows a worker to complete a whole or identifiable piece of work.

Effective leaders recognize that money is not the only reward that motivates workers.

Flextime is a work arrangement in which two or more people share the same 40-hour-a-week job.

In addition to contacting the references a job applicant provides, experienced employers also call an applicant's previous employers to attempt to get a clear picture of the applicant's job performance, character, and work habits.

Studies comparing large companies to small ones have found that large companies' inability to react quickly is a major barrier to their growth.

Successful organizational culture supports exceptional performance and is compatible with the firm's stated values and beliefs. Which of the following best illustrates this concept?

Job enlargement is based on the premise that the best way to design a job is to break it down into its simplest form and to standardize each task.

The type of job design that adds more tasks to a job to broaden its scope is known as ________.

A compensation system in which employees' pay depends on how well they perform their jobs is known as ________.

A job analysis describes the process by which a firm determines the duties and nature of the jobs to be filled and the skills and experience required of the people who are to fill them.

Which of the following is true regarding hiring mistakes?

A situational interview gives the candidate a typical job-related situation to see how they respond.

An assembly line is based on the principle of job simplification.

Which of the following is not one of the vital tasks small business leaders must perform?

Burt is applying for a position as a staff accountant. The job specification for the position might list all of the following items except ________.

Although a small business manager must assume a wide range of ideas, tasks, and responsibilities, none is more important than the role of leader.

Effective interviewers spend about 75 percent of the interview talking and about 25 percent listening.

Successful interviewers always listen for these in an interview to see whether it matches the candidate's words. This interviewer is referring to the candidate's ________.

What is leadership? How does leadership differ from management?