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Test 3

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  A growth in the manufacturing sector’s paper usage.
B  A manipulation of balance sheets by firms to make more profits without making more or better products.
C  The finance industry’s mechanism for making take-home pay appear to increase faster than inflation.
D  The issuing of worthless stocks to manipulate the asking price for a company.
E  A federal policy to financially underwrite increased opportunities for communities to develop new industries.
Question #2
A  Computer-Assisted Design.
B  Computer-Aided Numeric Controls.
C  Innovative Technological Systems.
D  Management Information Systems.
E  “New” Accounting Systems.
Question #3
A  matrix organization.
B  horizontal differentiation.
C  spatial differentiation.
D  patrimonial organization.
E  vertical differentiation.
Question #4
A  agriculture->manufacturing->services
B  manufacturing->agriculture->services
C  agriculture->services
D  services->agricultural->manufacturing
E  services->manufacturing
Question #5
A  use of tools versus the use of knowledge.
B  direct personal control versus bureaucratic control.
C  division of labor by training and skill versus the division of labor by occupational inheritance.
D  division of labor by gender and age versus no such division of labor.
E  specialization of workers in crafts versus their specialization in tasks.
Question #6
A  the interaction is in the retail apparel industry.
B  the service provider is a minority-group member, and the interaction is
C  the service provider is a woman, and she does emotion work.
D  the interaction is in a low-paying industry.
E  the interaction is routinized and the industry is bureaucratized.
Question #7
A  increasingly middle-class distribution of jobs
B  creation of non-traditional occupations whose pay varies from setting to setting
C  mostly highly-paid jobs, with a few poorly-paid jobs
D  unchanged occupational distribution from the 1980s
E  increasing share of poorly-paid jobs, with a few highly-paid jobs
Question #8
A  electronic monitoring.
B  making an example of a customer who fails to observer the “customer’s role.”
C  rewarding customers who find mistakes in worker procedures.
D  providing training.
E  encouraging the general public to call misbehavior to the attention of management.
Question #9
A  routinizes the interaction with the patient.
B  reduces the need for a good memory.
C  eliminates the need for training.
D  eliminates the need for face work with the patient.
E  is irrelevant to the dentist because it is only for Carla’s use.
Question #10
A  another service worker.
B  a business organization.
C  a college student.
D  a family.
E  an individual consumer.
Question #11
A  inform workers of their fringe benefits.
B  routinize interactions with customers.
C  identify leadership potential among workers.
D  establish agreement with management objectives.
E  develop rapport with co-workers.
Question #12
A  river navigation.
B  providing adequate water to a community.
C  testing swimming pools for micro-organisms.
D  fish farming.
E  irrigation of farms.
Question #14
A  services->manufacturing
B  manufacturing->agriculture->services
C  agriculture->services
D  services->agricultural->manufacturing
E  agriculture->manufacturing->services
Question #15
A  salaried employment.
B  working the evening shift.
C  having powerful clients.
D  high skill level or advanced training.
E  higher productivity.
Question #16
A  college graduates make insubordinate workers.
B  unions are not interested in issues of worker skill.
C  workers do not take advantage of training opportunities.
D  machines using the new technology rarely break down.
E  automation reduces the need for workers to make autonomous decisions.
Question #17
A  professional services — finance
B  insurance — public administration
C  retail trade — personal services
D  wholesale trade — retail trade
E  transportation — communication
Question #18
A  is used to insure quality control in production.
B  is used to provide greater safety in the workplace.
C  exists only in science fiction such as Orwell’s 1984.
D  is forbidden by law in the United States.
E  is used to monitor the work behavior of employees.
Question #19
A  mixed-effects position
B  deskilling thesis
C  social skill thesis
D  semi-skilled position
E  skill-upgrading thesis
Question #20
A  They may allow discrimination against some workers, despite formal rules.
B  They do not arise in unionized workplaces.
C  They may facilitate organizational goals.
D  They may affect the level of productivity.
E  They may limit bureaucratic control of labor.
Question #21
A  agriculture is less important
B  there is still a smaller but highly productive manufacturing sector
C  industrial is a synonym for manufacturing
D  productivity is hard to measure
E  knowledge work will be so significant
Question #22
A  They are skilled workers.
B  They typically learn their trade through apprenticeship programs.
C  Compared with operatives, they have more autonomy over their jobs.
D  Automation has affected them more than other factory workers.
E  Many of their unions have historically made efforts to exclude women and minorities.
Question #23
A  the centralization of control
B  that formal rules make discrimination more difficult
C  the federal whistle-blowing law
D  reduced creativity in bureaucracies
E  the prevalence of larger number of clerical jobs