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Introduction to Business DANTES Practice Test
1) PERT is an acronym for what?
A) Personal effort retention training
B) Practical employment risk training
C) Program evaluation and review technique
D) Personnel employment round table
E) None of the above
2) LPC stands for
A) Least personnel count
B) Leverage people credentials
C) Late potential credit
D) Least preferred coworker
E) None of the above
3) If you are an authoritarian, you ascribe to
A) Theory x
B) Theory y
C) Theory xy
D) Management theory
E) None of the above
4) Which of the following is NOT one of Henry Mintzberg’s classifications of organizations?
A) Simple
B) Complex
C) Organic
D) Stable
E) Dynamic
5) When a supervisor asks for opinions in making decisions
A) Situational leadership
B) Participative leadership
C) Autocratic leadership
D) Laissez faire leadership
E) None of the above
6) The way that people communicate with each other using their bodies
A) Consideration
B) Body language
C) Communication
D) Charisma
E) None of the above
7) If a plant manager is tasked to reduce costs by 10% this is an example of what kind of goal?
A) Strategic
B) Long-term
C) Tactical
D) Operational
E) Realistic
8) An employee that works on an assembly line performing the same task again and again is an example of
A) Job specialization
B) Job rotation
C) Job sharing
D) Job description
E) Job requirement
9) Which of the following are barriers to making decisions?
A) Statistics
B) Lack of statistics
C) Emotions
D) All of the above
E) None of the above
10) Which of the following is NOT a factor with job satisfaction?
A) Hours
B) Pay
C) Benefits
D) Vacation location
E) Working conditions
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Introduction to Business DSST Practice Test Answer Key:
- 1. C:) Program evaluation and review technique.
- 2. D:) Least preferred coworker. The LPC or least preferred coworker is an important part of Fiedler’s contingency theory.
- 3. A:) Theory x.
- 4. C:) Organic. Henry Mintzberg classified organizations as either simple, complex, stable or dynamic.
- 5. B:) Participative leadership.
- 6. B:) Body language.
- 7. D:) Operational.
- 8. A:) Job specialization.
- 9. D:) All of the above.
- 10. D:) Vacation location.