Value Innovations Inc. engages in selling computers and other electronic components through telephone and Web orders. The company has decided to change some of its policies. When recruiting employees, it will now focus primarily on the attitudes of individuals. Here, the company is concentrating on a(n) ________ factor.

Billy has been asking about the pros and cons of social responsibility activities in his new role as plant manager. In your role as vice president of production, when you meet with him today regarding the firm’s new social responsibility initiative, you could best summarize the need for social responsibility activities in the following sentence: “Regardless of which argument or combination of arguments managers embrace, we generally should make a concerted effort to ________ perform social responsibility activities beyond those ________ required.”

Today’s focus on ecology conservation is known as ________.

If Rita has too many alternatives to choose from based on the input she has received, she may find herself ________ by choosing a decision that is just “good enough” rather than optimal.

________ are training vehicles for assigning a particular task to an individual to furnish him or her with experience in a particular area.

________ typically involves acting out and then reflecting on some people-oriented problem that must be solved in the organization.

Joe is disappointed when his teammate Tim gets promoted because he feels that he has worked harder and is more deserving of the promotion. Which one of the following actions will Joe most likely take to overcome this sense of inequity?

A&M Global Services recently instituted an organization-wide policy aimed at increasing diversity within the organization. Though recruitment practices complied with the policy and management conducted intensive diversity training sessions, employee support of the initiative has been negligible. Which of the following will most likely encourage employee cooperation in this situation?

Which one of the following is an example of a topic that management ideas encompass in the invention stage of the innovation process?

Billy has been asking about the pros and cons of social responsibility activities in his new role as plant manager. In your role as vice president of production, when you meet with him today regarding the firm’s new social responsibility initiative, you could best summarize the need for social responsibility activities in the following sentence: “Regardless of which argument or combination of arguments managers embrace, we generally should make a concerted effort to ________ perform social responsibility activities beyond those ________ required.”