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Updated on 05/05/2015

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Thanks for visiting my pages at the Glendale Community College web site. You can learn here about the Business Administration and Oceanography classes that I teach here, and my other professional interests (e.g.,  Financial Economics, Resource Economics, Physical Geology, Environmental Geology etc.). These pages, and the links therein, will also give you information about globalization, outsourcing, rational exhuberance, earthquakes, particularly the seismicity in Southern California, volcanism, plate tectonism, El Nino, global climate change, atmospheric and ocean circulation, energy and other earth resources, and the related environmental issues.

with your questions

 
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True/False Propositions
Each question below is either TRUE or FALSE
 

On this
page:

 

 

True or False

Multiple Choice

Short Notes
 

Fayol defined a manager's job as comprising planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling.

 

The main task of human resources management is to ensure the welfare of the workforce.
 

Using the tools like Gantt charts and CPM (Critical Path Method) is against business etiquette and should be minimized, therefore.
 

Product, price, promotion and placement are the four Ps that comprise the marketing mix.
 

"Product life cycle" is the phrase that businesses commonly use to describe the simple fact that good and serves the consumers buy have limited life-span, e.g., the car you buy cannot usually last for your lifetime.

 

 

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Multiple-Choice Questions
Each question-item below is a contextually relevant 'TRUE/FALSE' proposition.

 

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Which of these would
you classify as a consumer
product, and not as a
business product?

The Rolls-Royce BR715 engine that powers the Boeing 717-200 aircraft.

The 2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe with a MSRP of $407,000.

Google's G-phone that is supposed to rival the iphone.
 
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Using this simplified presen-
tation of the Sharon and Weaver's communication model, would it make sense to argue that electronic communication (e.g., e-mail) works better ...

in "low context" cultures like the U.S. and Europe that require explicit written and verbal messages, than in the "high context" cultures like Japan, India and Latin America that prefer more visual cues and personal comfort level.

in "high context" cultures like Japan, India and Latin America that prefer more visual cues and personal comfort level than in the "low context" cultures like the U.S. and Europe that prefer explicit written and verbal messages.

than any other form of written communication because it cuts noise (or minimizes redundancy) by being short and straight-to-the-point.
 
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It follows from Maslow's
hierarchy-of-needs theory, 
that ...

employees are more likely to sacrifice their higher order needs in periods of economic downturn than during the periods of booming economy.
employees are more likely to seek the fulfillment of

 

their higher order needs in periods of economic downturn such as the present than during the periods of booming economy, simply because depressed prices make the otherwise costly "stuff" affordable.

the main job of business is to satisfy all the needs of its employees.
 
bullet This flow-chart is ...

the example of a critical path method of scheduling analysis.

a Gantt chart that supervisors and production managers often use for scheduling purposes.

the example of a product-life-cycle.
 
bullet Which of these is true
of the product life cycle?

Time ®

Most of the profits are realized in the declining stage when the production and promotion costs are minimal.

Profits are most in the early and growth stages after which they start declining.
Product life cycle explains why businesses need to continually innovate because, without such efforts, the sales and profits will eventually disappear.

 
bullet Looking at Hofstede's
international comparison
of cultural traits shown here,
can we argue that Henri
Fayol's definition of a
manager's job as
planning, organizing,
coordinating and
controlling works ...

better in a small power-distance culture like the U.S. than in a large power-distance culture like that in Singapore?

better in a large power-distance culture like that in Mexico than in a small power-distance culture like the U.S.?

well in all cultures so long as the focus is on large-scale routine operations that do not demand individual creativity?

 

Short notes
  
 Write 50-75 words answers, with sketches and illustrations, as and when appropriate.
 
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Why can't all businesses adopt the Google model of HR management, with its flexible work schedules and employee empowerment? Discuss.
 
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Today’s manager, Mintzberg argued, has interpersonal (figurehead, leader, liaison), informational (monitor, disseminator, spokesperson) and decisional (entrepreneur, disturbance handler, negotiator) roles. In what ways was this argument different from Henri Fayol's identification of Planning, Organizing, Coordinating and Controlling as the four jobs that a manager does?
 
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Can the product life cycle be extended? In what ways? Discuss with suitable examples.
 
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Perform a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat) analysis of either your own professional growth or that of the Glendale Community College, using the present global economic downturn as the main environmental threat.
 
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Explain what is meant by "Marketing Mix", giving suitable examples.

 

 

 

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