Maria Escobar works as an attorney for a large East Coast consulting firm.

Maria Escobar works as an attorney for a large East Coast consulting firm. Maria’s job is to act as an advisor to the firm’s consultants, to be sure that they do not confront any legal issues when they are working at the various clients’ job sites. Maria’s position would be classified as a __________ position.

line

middle management

first line

staff

Robin Banks is a supervisor for a large, bureaucratic organization on the West Coast. According to the views of a bureaucratic organization, this means that Robin should:

be included in decision making when decisions affect her workers.

do her work and let middle- and upper-level managers do the decision making.

try to get her workers organized into cross-functional teams.

have a wide span of control.

A Japanese auto company recognized the quality of air-conditioning systems that a U.S. company in Indiana successfully manufactured for the U.S. auto industry. Rather than build its own, it ______________ the air-conditioning component of its models to the U.S. company, which provided several jobs for skilled tradespersons in that state.

benchmarked

insourced

mobilized

partitioned

Which of the following would not be used to describe a company with a positive corporate culture?

Emphasizes service to others, especially customers.

People enjoy working together to provide good products at reasonable prices.

Less need for policy manuals, formal rules and procedures.

Closer supervision of employees.