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1. Which of the following is “Driving Interdisciplinary Studies Today?”

a. The disappearance of the disciplines.

b. The growing demand for traditional majors.                               

c. The complexity of nature, society, and ourselves.

d. None of the above

2. Country A is characterized by tightly knit social groups and it places importance on belonging to? organizations, families, and other? groups, it has? ________.

A. low uncertainty avoidance

B. collectivism

C. low power distance

D. femininity

E. high? long-term orientation

3. Which of the following is most likely a characteristic of a country with low power? distance?

A. Equality and opportunity are stressed.

B. Many people prefer structured situations.

C. Relationships fit into a tight social framework.

D. There is little difference between male and female roles.

E. People act primarily as individuals.

4. Suppose that Luke, director of human resources for Intermountain Healthcare, wanted to evaluate the effectiveness of the high-performance work systems that the organization is using. Which of the following activities should he undertake first in this endeavor?

Look at metrics including quality-of-life measures

Make small changes to the high-performance work system

Establish the goals of the high-performance work system

Conduct a process audit to see how the system was implemented

5. Kyle Bolstrom, operations officer for Intermountain Healthcare, says that the company doesn't just have a group of senior leaders where anything that's developed in the board room automatically gets rolled out. He then says that most of their strategies come out of clinical programs. These statements indicate that Intermountain Healthcare is most likely concerned with:

Providing health care at the lowest possible cost

Involving employees in decision making

Interacting with insurance providers as little as possible

Limiting the amount of control employees have over organizational strategy