This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Economy > Business > Business Management – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Business Management Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Gradual loss of value because of wear and tear. A) Depreciation. B) Working capital. C) Fixed assets. D) Financial records. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Depreciation. 2. They bargain with supplier, customers and others for better quality, lower prices, better delivery and prices etc. A) Negotiators. B) Resource Allocators. C) Entrepreneurs. D) Spokeperson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Negotiators. 3. According to the Business Video presentations, which of the following is NOT a typical task in the Administrative Support pathway? A) Greeting and welcoming customers. B) Scheduling and confirming appointments. C) Equipment operation and maintenance. D) Filing and maintaining documents. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Equipment operation and maintenance. 4. This is a type of business where investors own shares called stock A) Conglomerate. B) Pool. C) Corporation. D) Monopoly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Corporation. 5. Operations management strategies and practices do not include A) Technological sustainability. B) Ecological sustainability. C) Sustainability. D) Economic social sustainability. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Technological sustainability. 6. The first level of management in a company is typically: A) Supervisors. B) Work coaches. C) Executives. D) Middle managers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supervisors. 7. Of the five value dimensions, which has been called the most important factor in long-term success? A) Innovation. B) Quality. C) Responsiveness. D) Delivery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quality. 8. A customer asks a salesperson about a specific advertisement in last Sunday's newspaper. Which of the following would help the salesperson to assist the customer? A) Knowledge of the products being promoted. B) Knowledge of the store's policies. C) Knowledge of the store's promotional budget. D) Knowledge of the customer's preferences. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowledge of the products being promoted. 9. A customer-service mindset means that a business considers providing excellent customerservice to be A) Necessary in certain cases. B) A top priority. C) Moderately important. D) Its only objective. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A top priority. 10. Which function of management involves reviewing the performance of employees? A) Controlling. B) Organizing. C) Planning. D) Leading. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Controlling. 11. Original facts and figures that businesses generate. A) VoIP. B) Information system. C) Data. D) Knowledge workers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Data. 12. In this function, managers must make sure that the business has sufficient resources to achieve its objectives. A) Coordinating. B) Organizing. C) Controlling. D) Planning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organizing. 13. When an organization relocates one or more of its processes to another country, usually to save on costs. A) Outsourcing. B) Global Outsourcing. C) Global Firm. D) Off-shoring. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Off-shoring. 14. Which of the following are examples of intellectual property that are protected by trade-secret legislation: A) Research techniques and artistic works. B) Chemical compounds and manufacturing processes. C) Novels and customer lists. D) Inventions and trade characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chemical compounds and manufacturing processes. 15. Which management style would work best with employees who have their own specialized jobs and are expert in them? A) Open. B) Autocratic. C) Powerful. D) Democratic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Open. 16. What are the four components of the business process? A) Production, Marketing, Finance and Management. B) Wholesaling Marketing, Finance and Management. C) Production, Manufacturing, Finance and Management. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Production, Marketing, Finance and Management. 17. The idea "survival of the fittest" is expressed in the A) Melting pot theory of American culture. B) Concept of assimilation. C) Goals of the Progressive movement. D) Principles of Social Darwinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Principles of Social Darwinism. 18. Which of the following is not a key management skill? A) Independence. B) Delegation. C) Leading. D) Communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Independence. 19. Having clear customer relationship management goals before putting a program into place helps businesses to avoid A) Spending any money. B) Having to lay off employees. C) Purchasing irrelevant technology. D) Having unsatisfied customers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purchasing irrelevant technology. 20. Which of the following is an example of a middle manager? A) Principal. B) Assistant Principals. C) Teacher. D) CFO. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assistant Principals. 21. Why should employees act as if customers are their employers? A) Customers pay employees' bonuses. B) Employees would not have jobs if there were no customers. C) Customers own the business. D) Employees might work for the customers in the future. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Customers own the business. 22. Which of the following describes small businesses? A) Are usually national or global. B) Usually have more than 100 employees. C) Usually have less than 100 employees. D) Can be divided into many different departments. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Usually have less than 100 employees. 23. James is creating a list of monthly job duties for the managers in his section. A) Controlling. B) Organizing. C) Planning. D) Leading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organizing. 24. A management style that uses delegation requires ..... A) Brand new employees. B) Retired employees. C) Experienced and responsible employees. D) Inexperienced employees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Experienced and responsible employees. 25. A manager decides how many and what kind of people a business needs to meet it's goals and then recruits, selects, and trains the right people in this role. A) Organizing. B) Leading. C) Planning. D) Staffing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Staffing. 26. Conducting a semi-annual employee evaluation with all staff A) Planning. B) Controlling. C) Organizing / Staffing. D) Leading. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leading. 27. Which level of needs (Maslow) could be satisfied by organising team building activities? A) Self-Esteem. B) Social. C) Safety. D) Self-Actualisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social. 28. Jill's company just took on a new project, and she knows that she needs to decide which staff members will be in charge of each aspect of the project. Jill is ..... A) Organizing. B) Controlling. C) Planning. D) Staffing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organizing. 29. The invention of machines that allowed for the faster processing of raw materials began the transformation of work and business and led to A) The Industrial Revolution. B) A change from classical management to quality management. C) The decline of labor unions. D) The need for fewer managers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Industrial Revolution. 30. One of the most important aspects of project management involves ..... A) Setting goals. B) Buying supplies. C) Identifying mistakes. D) Training employees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting goals. 31. It is the level of management whose work is to supervise a small work group composed of non-managerial workers. A) Top Management. B) Executive management. C) Middle management. D) Lower level of management. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lower level of management. 32. Innovations or new ideas tend to come from ..... A) Small Businesses. B) Large Corporations. C) Middle Management. D) Senior Management. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Small Businesses. 33. The part of staffing that involves seeking out and attracting qualified potential job candidates is called? A) Interviewing. B) Recruiting. C) Training. D) On-boarding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recruiting. 34. When raw materials enter and finished products leave with little or no human intervention, it is called? A) Automation. B) Robots are taking over. C) Wall-E. D) Automated production lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Automated production lines. 35. The government agency that anyone looking to help with starting a business is the A) Business Agency Group. B) Small Business Start-Up Agency. C) The Government Business Assistance Authority. D) Small Business Administration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Small Business Administration. 36. Bottling machines are usually considered as ..... A) Capital goods. B) Capital services. C) Consumer goods. D) Services. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Capital goods. 37. The ability to influence individuals and groups to cooperatively achieve common goals A) Team building. B) Rules. C) Undertanding. D) Leadership. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leadership. 38. Which of the following forms of income would be considered unearned income: A) Union strike benefits. B) Interest from a savings account. C) A personal salary. D) Tips from waiting tables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Interest from a savings account. 39. A private sector business is owned by? A) Government. B) Inviduals. C) 2-30 people. D) A company. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inviduals. 40. The Sherman Anti-trust Act and the Interstate Commerce Commission were both attempts to A) Regulate monopolies. B) Prevent large corporations from eliminating competition. C) Protect small businesses. D) All answer choices are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All answer choices are correct. 41. All authority can be traced in a direct line from the top to the bottom in A) A line organization. B) A matrix organization. C) A team organization. D) All of the responses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A line organization. 42. A basic truth or law: ..... A) Policy. B) Principle. C) Skill. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Principle. 43. Issues around globalisation center on ..... A) Legal structure, taxation & staffing. B) Legal structure, employees & staffing. C) Legal structure, global market & opportunities. D) Business structure, taxation & staffing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Legal structure, taxation & staffing. 44. Two significant advantages to using CAD are: A) It allows companies to try various product designs and reduces the time it takes to design new products. B) It allow companies to try various product designs. C) It allows companies to keep the original product design. D) CAD doesn't really give companies a significant advantage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It allows companies to try various product designs and reduces the time it takes to design new products. 45. Entrepreneurship is A) Willingly working a lot of hours. B) Willingly risking resources to start and run a business in pursuit of profit. C) Is getting permission to run your own business. D) Making dangerous decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Willingly risking resources to start and run a business in pursuit of profit. 46. Which of the following is generally used by companies with fewer than 50 employees? A) Off shoring. B) Downsizing. C) Outsourcing and employee leasing. D) Leadership development. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outsourcing and employee leasing. 47. Claims against assets. A) Liabilities. B) Financial records. C) Working capital. D) Depreciation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Liabilities. 48. ..... occurs when a business cuts back on operations to focus on its core activities. This way does not need to employ as many workers. A) Downshifting. B) Teleworking. C) Job Share. D) Outsourcing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outsourcing. 49. Edgar Schein described three levels of organisational culture: A) Power culture, task culture organizational attributes. B) Organisational attributes, person culture, professed culture. C) Task culture, role culture, person culture. D) Organisational attributes, professed culture, organisational assumptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organisational attributes, professed culture, organisational assumptions. 50. A business improves its technology so it can better meet customer wants and needs. This results from a business activity known as A) Organizational structuring. B) Employee training. C) Amplified improvement. D) Business process management. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Business process management. 51. A type of power often invested in experienced or well-liked employees is A) Position power. B) Identity power. C) Expert power. D) Reward power. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Identity power. 52. Which is NOT a strategy to develop new business opportunities domestically? A) Branching into a new field of business. B) Online shopping. C) Extending opening hours. D) Franchising. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extending opening hours. 53. An example of this sampling method is:Being in a room and interviewing first 20 people you see. What type of sampling is that? A) Convenience. B) Cluster. C) Random. D) Stratified. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convenience. 54. A partnership combines the expertise and resources of? A) 2-30. B) 2-20. C) 1-10. D) 2-10. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2-10. 55. A career in ..... involves helping an organization manage its people. This includes hiring, training, compensation, administering benefits and handling personal information. A) Administrative support. B) Human resources. C) Business information management. D) Operations management. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human resources. 56. The ability to influence individuals and groups to achieve organizational goals is A) An autocratic style. B) Leadership. C) Management. D) Effective human relations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leadership. 57. The Contingency-Approach consists of A) Behavioural Approach primarily with elements of the Classical approach. B) An approach where employees can work at home. C) Switching between Classical and Behavioural Approaches depending on the size of a business. D) Using elements of Behavioural and Classical approaches depending on certain situations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Using elements of Behavioural and Classical approaches depending on certain situations. 58. Jerry's Chicken Shack's secret sauce has made the business very popular along the east coast. Other restaurants want the recipe so that they can steal some of Jerry's business. Jerry's secret sauce needs to be protected as a A) Trademark. B) Copyright. C) Trade secret. D) Patent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trade secret. 59. ..... determined the "one best way" of performing a task or series of task. A) Fredrick Douglass. B) Fredrick W. Taylor. C) Abraham H. Maslow. D) Abraham Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fredrick W. Taylor. 60. Which of the can lead to a culture clash? A) Similar degrees of formality. B) Same languages. C) Different leadership styles. D) Equal comfort levels with diversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Different leadership styles. 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