管理学习题4
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Management, 11e (Robbins/Coulter) Chapter 4 Managing Diversity
1) Workplace diversity refers exclusively to the differences between employee characteristics. Answer: FALSE Page Ref: 99
Topic: Who Are Managers? Objective: 1 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
2) The concept of workforce diversity expanded from compliance to an issue of business survival during the early 1980s. Answer: FALSE Page Ref: 99
Topic: Who Are Managers? Objective: 1 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
3) Demographic characteristics such as differences in age, gender, race, etc. reflect surface-level diversity among employees. Answer: TRUE Page Ref: 100
Topic: Who Are Managers? Objective: 1 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
4) Deep-level diversity refers to easily perceived differences that may trigger certain stereotypes, but that do not necessarily reflect the ways people think or feel. Answer: FALSE Page Ref: 100
Topic: Who Are Managers? Objective: 1 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
5) One of the strategic benefits of workplace diversity is that it can be viewed as moral and ethical, as well as the \Answer: TRUE Page Ref: 100
Topic: What Is Management? Objective: 1 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
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6) Recent research indicates that people management benefits might be hard to come by in teams performing more interdependent tasks over a long period of time. Answer: TRUE Page Ref: 101
Topic: What Is Management? Objective: 1
Difficulty: Moderate
Classification: Conceptual
7) An important impact that workplace diversity has on organizational performance is through the increase in employee turnover. Answer: FALSE Page Ref: 101
Topic: What Is Management? Objective: 1 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
8) According to projections of the U.S. population, the ethnic groups that will exhibit the maximum change are the Hispanic and African American populations. Answer: FALSE Page Ref: 102
Topic: What Is Management? Objective: 2 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
9) The main reason for the predicted stabilization of world population growth by 2050 is the decline in birthrates as nations advance economically. Answer: TRUE Page Ref: 104
Topic: What Is Management? Objective: 2 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
10) People aged 65 and older are expected to soon outnumber children under age 5 for the first time in history. Answer: TRUE Page Ref: 104
Topic: What Do Managers Do? Objective: 2 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
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11) Worldwide population trends indicate that we will witness dwindling labor supply and increasing total global savings rates. Answer: FALSE Page Ref: 105
Topic: What Do Managers Do? Objective: 2 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
12) Employers generally tend to view older workers as not being flexible or adaptable and being more resistant to new technology. Answer: TRUE Page Ref: 105
Topic: What Do Managers Do? Objective: 3 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
13) Women and men now each make up almost half of the workforce in the U.S. Answer: TRUE Page Ref: 106
Topic: What Do Managers Do? Objective: 3 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
14) Research indicates that men tend to prefer jobs that encourage work-life balance more than women do.
Answer: FALSE Page Ref: 106
Topic: What Do Managers Do? Objective: 3 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
15) Men are found to follow a nurturing, inclusive, and collaborative style of leadership, in contrast to women. Answer: FALSE Page Ref: 106
Topic: What Do Managers Do? Objective: 3 Difficulty: Easy
Classification: Conceptual
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