CHAPTER 4: The Competitive Environment

The process by which two or more parties exchange information and share meaning is called _____

• communication

• job embeddedness

  
  

• integration

• specification

In the context of HR strategy formulation, employee benefits and services and wage structure are part of a firm's _____.

• HR planning strategy

  
  

• Money strategy

• compensation strategy

• motivation strategy

Which of the following strategies does an organization adopt when its goal is to protect itself from environmental threats?

• Enviromental safety strategy

• A stability strategy

• active threat strategy

• Unrelated diversification

  
  

In the context of HR strategy formulation, which of the following is a component of the employee-development strategy of a firm?

• motivation

• Salary structure

• HR planning

• Career planning

In the context of the adaptation model, which of the following strategies falls between the defender and prospector strategies?

• The motivation strategy

• The analyzer strategy

• the reactor strategy

• the prospect strategy

An organization’s _______ is a statement of how it intends to fulfill its purpose.

• Mission

• purpose

• culture

• personality

is a person’s adaptive response to a stimulus that places excessive psychological or physical demands on that person.

• personality

• Stress

• feeling

• adaptation

A ____________________ is one that focuses on minimizing the costs as much as possible.

• Focus Strategy

• Diversification Strategy

• Cost leadership strategy

• Stability Strategy

to the set of values that helps its members understand what the organization stands for, how it accomplishes what it wants to accomplish, and what it considers important.

• Culture

• Purpose

• Mission

• Beliefs

is the relatively stable set of psychological attributes or traits that distinguish one person from another.

• Motivation

• Character

• Purpose

• Personality