GMS 200 Study Guide - Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Worker, Brainpower

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16 Oct 2012

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Ryerson University

Department

Global Management Studies

Course

GMS 200

Professor

Jian Guan

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Workforce diversity reflects differences with respect to gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and able-bodiedness. A diverse and multicultural workforce both challenges and offers opportunities to employers. Career of 21st century won"t be uniformly full-time and limited to a single large employer. Critical skills for success in the new workplace. A collection of people working together to achieve a common purpose. Organizations provide useful goods and/or services tat return value to society and satisfy customer needs. Composed of interrelated parts that function together to achieve a common purpose. Environmental feedback tells organizations how well it is meeting the needs of customer and society. Value is created when an organization"s operations adds value to the original cost of resource inputs. When value creation occurs: businesses earn a profit, nonprofit organizations add wealth to society. Global management (notes: an overall measure of the quantity and quality of work performance with resource utilization taken into account.

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Which of the following statements about cultural differences in the workplace is most accurate?

A. The best way to deal with cultural differences in the workplace is to treat everyone the same way

B. Cultural differences were once a major problem, but television, telecommunications, e-mail, and the Internet have brought people closer together and greatly reduced cultural differences

C. Managers must be very aware of cultural differences and recognize that different employee may respond best to different management and motivational styles

D. Only firms that hire a lot of foreign-born workers are likely to have problems dealing with cultural differences. Workers born in the United States tend to have a common set of values and attitudes, regardless of age or social background

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15. What do we call the responsibility of identifying the numbers and types of employees the organization will require to meet its objectives? a) Human capital allocation b) Workforce planning c) High-performance planning d) Performance management e) None of the above

According to the principles of scientific management, the best way to improve productivity is to:

a) establish open two-way communications among all of the organization's employees and managers.

b) use time-motion studies to find the best method of doing each job, then teach those methods to employees.

c) use job rotation and job enlargement to make work more interesting and challenging.

d) give employees greater recognition for their efforts.

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