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Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) Pay is never subject to negotiation between the employer and one or more trade unions

B) The question of remuneration is easy

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) Pay is never subject to negotiation between the employer and one or more trade unions

B) A patently fair and just pay scale is essential to ensure a satisfied work-force, and the ability to earn extra money beyond basic pay is an incentive to greater productivity

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) President Gorbachev signed the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, Public Law 104-188, on August 20, 1996

B) Clerical and managerial workers are always very susceptible to union influence

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) President Gorbachev signed the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, Public Law 104-188, on August 20, 1996

B) The minimum wage increase applies to all wage employees covered by sections 5342(a)(2) and 5348 of title 5, United States Code

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) Service industry workers are often organized in labour unions, which attempt to ensure fair wages, reasonable working hours and safe working conditions for their members

B) Congolese unions are known as trade unions because, as in Germany, they are largely organized according to trade or skill: there is an engineers’ union, an lectricians’ union, a train-drivers’ union, and so on

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) Some employers and managers (and political parties) oppose the very existence of unions – even though, like doctors, lawyers, accountants, and so on, but they might themselves belong to a professional association with similar basic aims? But not many management theorists stress the necessity of unions

B) In the 1970s, Peter Drucker* wrote that ‘Management is and has to be a power. Any power needs restraint and control – or else it becomes tyranny

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) The articles together with the memorandum when registered are not yet a contract which binds the company and its members as if signed and sealed by each member

B) The only major document, governing the company is the articles of association

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) The best of business is a joint-stock company, also called a company or corporation, a joint stock company is a “legal person”

B) This means that the company itself has rights and powers separate and different from those of the natural or legal persons who compose it and are its shareholders

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) The best of business is a joint-stock company, also called a company or corporation, a joint stock company is a “legal person”

B) Once you set up a joint-stock company, you never really need to prepare its Memorandum of Association

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) The labour content is relatively small compared to the capital investment, and most of it is very skilled

B) The small proportion of skilled labour required is employed to set up the machines for production, and is highly paid

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) The matter of remuneration can be a thorny one.

B) In many areas of work basic pay is not subject to negotiation between the employer and one or more trade unions, and at present the main criterion is not the worth of the job to the employer but a mixture of the cost of living and what is being paid elsewhere

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) The minimum wage increase applies to all wage employees covered by sections 5342(a)(2) and 5348 of title 5, United States Code

B) All wage schedules issued pursuant to a wage survey under the authority of section 5343 of title 5, United States Code, are subject to this minimum wage increase

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) The only major document, governing the company is the articles of association

B) If a joint-stock company goes bankrupt and can not pay out its debts, then either the shareholders or the creditors go to prison at once

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) The small proportion of skilled labour required is employed to set up the machines for production, and is highly paid

B) The term ‘mass production’ (or flow-line production) is used only for the production of matreshki

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) The union serves an essential function in industrial society

B) One of the chief objectives of right-wing governments in the 1980s (e.g. in Britain and the USA) was to diminish the power of trade unions, and to deregulate labour markets in accordance with the ideal of free markets

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) There are twenty seven steps to be taken before starting your business

B) To choose the legal structure of the business is a very small step in the decisions you will have to make

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) There is only a statement that the registered office of a company is situated in England

B) The address is not given but, as we have seen, it is filed with the Registrar when applying for registration

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) There is only a statement that the registered office of a company is situated in England

B) This requires just one vote

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) Time is never saved in pay negotiations when dealing with a union as compared to dealing with individuals

B) but this is not relevant in respect of supervisors and managers where it helps to promote equitable schemes of remuneration and to avoid inequalities and possible consequent resentment

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) To remain profitable it is necessary for enterprises employing mass-production methods to utilise their people

B) When orders fall short of full capacity it is a bad idea to keep the plant running and to produce for stock rather than to reduce the volume of output

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) Unfortunately incentive schemes are frequently a source of mistrust and unrest through disputes about standards of performance and rates for the job

B) The matter of remuneration can be a thorny one

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) When redundancies are inevitable union co-operation can be particularly helpful in obtaining fair compensation for those affected

B) Managerial decisions can not be delayed because of the lengthy discussions necessary at plant and local union level for these decisions to be implemented

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) When there is mutual respect – that is, where morale is good – employees can more easily be given a picture of the organisation’s problems and thus obtain a better understanding of them through meetings with stewards and stewardesses.

B) They feel the strength of association and thus are able to have, through union representatives, constructive discussions on procedures relating to working practices, disciplinary measures and the like

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) Where there is mutual respect – that is, where morale is good – employees can more easily be given a picture of the organisation’s problems and thus obtain a better understanding of them through meetings with shop stewards and local union officials

B) Clerical and managerial workers are less susceptible to union influence and in these areas there is never any union involvement, particularly among local-authority workers and civil servants

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) A private limited company is usually controlled by Italian mafia

B) Private limited company always has more than fifty members who provide the capital which is divided into shares

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A) The amount of money available for investing in a business can be increased by forming a partnership of at least two people, who all contribute capital to the business and share the profit in agreed proportions

B) Like sole proprietors, partnerships have unlimited liability and there are no special legal requirements

Which of the two assertions are true and which are false?

A)Such a big union, particularly where there is a clothes shop can perpetuate and intensify restrictive practices unnecessarily

B) An example would be the insistence on a qualified electrician to change the job

A good remedy for this problem ___ matrix management, which allows people from the traditional functional departments of production, finance, marketing, sales, etc. to work together in teams

A problem of hierarchies ___ that people at lower levels are unable to make important decisions, but have to pass on responsibility to their boss

A product manager with an idea might be able to deal directly with managers responsible for a certain market ___. and for a geographical region, as well as the managers responsible for the traditional functions of finance, sales and production

And another possibility is to have wholly autonomous, temporary groups or ___ that are responsible for an entire project, and are split up as soon as it is successfully completed

And there may also be staff positions ___ are not integrated into the hierarchy

And this is one ___ of keeping authority at lower levels, but it is not necessarily a very efficient one

Another idea is decentralization: the separation ___. the organization into competing autonomous divisions

But one solution to this is matrix management, in ___. people report to more than one superior

By that time you’ll be gone and someone ___ will have to handle the problems

Companies that cannot be divided ___ autonomous divisions with their own markets can simulate decentralization, setting up divisions that deal with each other using internally determined transfer prices

Connection between divisions can be improved by the introduction of matrix management or ___.

For a large organization manufacturing a range of products, having a single production department is ___. inefficient

If you do like your job at Apple, watch ___

In their well-known book In Search of Excellence, they insist on the necessity of pushing authority and autonomy down the ___, but they argue that one element – probably the product – must have priority; four-dimensional matrices are far too complex

Instead of ___ all fired up about something, they go through one or two reorgs and get disorientated

It means, that Apple still ___ the bright young people

It might be internally divided into functional ___

Most large companies are decentralized, following the ___ of Alfred Sloan, who divided General Motors into separate operating divisions in 1920

Most organizations are hierarchical, with a number of levels and a line of command running from the top to the ___., so hierarchies should be avoided because they make decision-making slow and difficult

Organizational systems include matrix management and teams, both of which combine people from different functions and keep decision-making at lower ___

Separating functions ___ unlikely to encourage innovation

So, each division had its ___ engineering, production and sales departments, made a different category of car (but with some overlap, to encourage internal competition), and was expected to make a profit

Some banks, ___. example, have established commercial, corporate, private banking, international and investment divisions