What do we learn by studying alternative organizational structures in other countries?

What do we learn by studying alternative organizational structures in other countries?
 
  a. Most people tend to organize in precisely the same ways.
 b. The culture of a particular country has very little to do with organizational style.
 c. All organizations are not established on the same premises.
 d. People generally expect the same things from formal organizations.

Question 2

A restaurant owner in the 1950s does not feel negatively toward African Americans but refuses to serve them in his restaurant because he fears that doing so would offend customers. According to Robert Merton's typology, the restaurant owner is a(n) _____.
 
  a. unprejudiced discriminator
 b. prejudiced nondiscriminator
 c. prejudiced discriminator
 d. unprejudiced nondiscriminator

Question 3

__________ Buddhism, which focuses on the life of the Buddha and seeks to follow his teachings, gained its strongest toehold in Southeast Asia.
 
  a. Theravadin b. Mahayana
 c. Vajrayana d. Nirvana

Question 4

The assessment of outcomes based on quantifiable rather than subjective criteria is referred to as:
 
  a. predictability. b. efficiency.
 c. calculability. d. control.

Question 5

__________ refers to actions or practices of dominant-group members (or their representatives) that have a harmful impact on members of a subordinate group.
 
  a. Prejudice
 b. Racism
 c. Stereotyping
 d. Discrimination

Question 6

The founder of ________, Siddhartha Gautama of the Sakyas, was born into the privileged class. He was referred to as Buddha, meaning the Enlightened One, and spent his life teaching others how to reach nirvana.
 
  a. Hinduism b. Confucianism
 c. Buddhism d. Islam

Question 7

The best means of completing a task is referred to as:
 
  a. predictability. b. efficiency.
 c. calculability. d. control.

Question 8

According to Adorno, the __________ is most likely to develop in a family environment in which dominating parents who are anxious about status use physical discipline but show very little love in raising their children.
 
  a. ethnocentric social learning
 b. inferioritysuperiority complex
 c. passiveaggressive personality
 d. authoritarian personality