Wall Street Journal

 Question 1
1 out of 1 points | | | A finance manager who reads the Wall Street Journal on a regular basis would be performing which role?Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | b. monitor | Answer Feedback: | One of the responsibilities of a finance manager would be to keep track or monitor important events taking place in the business world. Reading the Wall Street Journal would be a good way to do this. After reading, the manager might disseminate some of the information he learned, but this would be secondary to the information monitoring function. A leader or liaison may indeed read a newspaper but only in the function of being an information monitor. | | | | |
 Question 2
1 out of 1 points | | | One of the common characteristics of all organizations is
True | Answer Feedback: | Mintzberg sees the manager's interpersonal chores as providing motivation and support (leading), representing the part of the organization you control (figurehead), and connecting with other parts of the organization and/or the outside world (liaison). | | | | |
 Question 7
1 out of 1 points | | | Joe, the Manager (Scenario)

As a production supervisor, Joe determines the number of output units his department will produce each week. On Monday, he informs his team that the schedule is going to be difficult this week due to the increased number of output units. He goes on to tell them that he is confident that they can fulfill the schedule because they are tough, talented, and "when the going gets tough, they are the ones who get going." Each day during the week, Joe checks the amount of output that the employees have completed and the number of units that have been