The countries that are the world’s top energy producers, consumers, and emitters and account for 40%

The countries that are the world’s top energy producers, consumers, and emitters and account for 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted annually are ______________________ and ______________________.

Brazil, Japan

United States, China

Russia, Greenland

Mexico, Myanmar

Which among the following value of pleasure or pain means the likelihood that the action would produce more pleasure?

Intensity

Extent

Purity

Fecundity

Which of the following is NOT an example of an observable artifact?

Myths

Stories

Rites and Rituals

Assumptions

__________________ is the system of shared beliefs that guide the behavior of members of an

Organizational structure

Organizational culture

Organizational processes

Organizational systems

Which of the following describes the state of nature according to John Locke?

Every man is born with a right of freedom and right to inheritance

Market alone should determine the laws of business

Individuals have been created by nature to maximize pleasure and minimize pain

Pursuing the greatest amount of pleasure for the greatest amount of people

With _____________ authority, important decisions are made at the top management levels while with ________ authority those decisions are made at lower management levels.

Centralized; decentralized

Decentralized; centralized

Staff; line

Functional; dysfunctional

Which term denotes bias against employees because of their activities outside the work environment?

Lifestyle discrimination

Affirmative action

Nepotism

Rankism

Which act entitles all workers employed in industries engaged in interstate commerce to have the right to select their own union to bargain?

National Labor Relations Act

Landrum-Griffin Act

Norris-La Guardia Act

Taft Hartley Act

In a ____________ structure, employees are arranged simultaneously into two separate groups, resulting in a flexible network of reporting relationships.

Product

Matrix

Customer

Functional

_____________ is the process of eliminating or combining tasks in the work sequence, based on the idea of division of labor and Taylor’s scientific management.

Job rotation

Job enrichment

Job design

Job simplification