QUIZ CHAP 3 AND CHAP 4

The interaction between information technology and organizations is influenced:

• solely by the decision making of middle and senior managers.

• by the development of new information technologies.

• by many factors, including structure, politics, culture, and environment

• by two main macroeconomic forces: capital and labor.

Which of the following statements about organizations is not true?

• An organization is a stable, formal social structure that takes resources from the environment and processes them to produce outputs.

• An organization is a formal, legal entity with internal rules and procedures that must abide by laws.

• An organization is a collection of people and other social elements.

• An informal group can be considered to be an organization

Which of the following is not a major feature of organizations that impacts the use of information systems?

• Business processes

• Environments

• Goals

• Agency costs

Which of the following technologies disrupted the traditional publishing industry?

• World Wide Web

• Internet telephony

• e-mail

• Instant messaging

The divergent viewpoints about how resources, rewards, and punishments should be distributed, and the struggles resulting from these differences are known as organizational:

• culture

• politics

• structure

• environments

All of the following are competitive forces in Porter's model except:

• suppliers

• new market entrants

• external environment

• customers

The obligations that individuals and organizations have concerning rights to intellectual property involve which of the following moral dimensions of the information age?

• Property rights and obligations

• System quality

• Accountability and control

• Information rights and obligations

Which of the following is not one of the current key technology trends that raises ethical issues?

• Data storage improvements

• Data analysis advancements

• Increase in data quality

• Increase in use of mobile devices

The use of computers to assemble data from different sources to create digital dossiers of detailed information about individuals is known as which of the following?

• Profiling

• Phishing

• Spamming

• Targeting

________ means that you accept the potential costs and obligations for the decisions you make.

• Responsibility

• Accountability

• Liability

• Due process