Questions from General Business Management

Q: What personal skills do you need to keep your financial backers feeling

What personal skills do you need to keep your financial backers feeling confident in your new business? Which skills are most useful when you’re dealing with more informal sources such as family and f...

Q: What are the characteristics of an open communication climate? Describe the

What are the characteristics of an open communication climate? Describe the organizational benefits of managers cultivating an open communication climate.

Q: What might be some disadvantages of acqui-hiring? As a

What might be some disadvantages of acqui-hiring? As a manager, how would you draw up a contract with a new employee who was an acqui-hire? Include considerations such as compensation and benefits, pe...

Q: 1. List the three main activities of human resource management (

1. List the three main activities of human resource management (HRM) and identify which activity is examined at length in the video. 2. Of the various steps in Barcelona’s employee selection process,...

Q: How might organizations strike a balance between respecting and meeting the needs

How might organizations strike a balance between respecting and meeting the needs of a diverse workforce and shaping a high-performance corporate culture where shared values contribute to the accompli...

Q: Have you ever experienced or witnessed the queen bee syndrome? What

Have you ever experienced or witnessed the queen bee syndrome? What specific strategies might top executives use to avoid the queen bee syndrome among female managers? Do you think that men might empl...

Q: You’re a manager who employs a participative control approach. You’ve concluded

You’re a manager who employs a participative control approach. You’ve concluded that corrective action is necessary to improve customer satisfaction, but first you need to convince your employees that...

Q: An organizational consultant was heard to say, “Some aspect of

An organizational consultant was heard to say, “Some aspect of functional structure appears in every organization.” Do you agree? Explain.

Q: Until Sheryl Sandberg was promoted to chief operating officer of Facebook in

Until Sheryl Sandberg was promoted to chief operating officer of Facebook in 2012, its board was composed of only men. Yet a majority of Facebook’s 845 million users are women. Given this demographic,...

Q: 1. Based on how this business owner describes her business,

1. Based on how this business owner describes her business, write a one- or two-sentence organizational mission statement for Mi Ola Swimwear. 2. Pick four of the following six categories: strategic...