List four of Mintzberg's Decisional roles of managers
What will be an ideal response?
• Entrepreneur: Searches the organization and its environment for opportunities and initiates improvement projects to bring about change; supervises design of certain projects
• Disturbance handler: Is responsible for corrective action when the organization faces important, unexpected disturbances
• Resource allocator: Is responsible for the allocation of organizational resources of all kinds; in effect, is responsible for the making or approval of all significant organizational decisions
• Negotiator: Is responsible for representing the organization at major negotiations
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Which of the following is true about the economic risks of doing business in a country?
a) economic risk are independent of political risks b) it is less costly to do business in relatively primitive or undeveloped economies c) the inflation rate in a country is an indicator of the economic risks of doing business in a country d) countries with weaker property laws tend to have higher economic growth, and involves less risk
Kiva Systems, manufacturer of robots used in flexible automation systems, demonstrates the power of ________ by "teaching" its robots to dispose of used cardboard and to assist in gift wrapping for e-commerce warehouse fulfillment
A) design thinking B) inventory management C) strategic flexibility D) e-business strategies