To maximize profitability and competitiveness, firms must  

The managerial tools for ________ include a SWOT analysis, forecasting, and VRIO analysis.  

A manager who follows _____________ assumes workers are lazy and irresponsible and require constant supervision and external motivation to achieve organizational goals.  

Zene is a chef and owner of a popular restaurant. Zene frequently visits competing restaurants to observe how they are doing things. He told one of his managers, “I eat dinner at a lot of restaurants because I want to know what is going on. I am always concerned that one of our competitors will surprise us with a new service or menu item, like ours but better.” In which activity is Zene engaging?  

Kickstarter, a global crowdfunding platform, states that its purpose as an organization is “to help bring creative projects to life.” This is the company’s  

Noah’s Ark is a successful child care center. It focuses on actively developing, finding, and communicating new knowledge to its employees so that workers can modify their behavior to reflect this new knowledge. Noah’s Ark is an example of a(n) ________  organization.  

Malik and his fiancée Myra decided to have their wedding on a beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Local businesses provided most of the services for the wedding, such as the limousine and the catering services. Throughout the weekend of the wedding, the couple found that workers and limos arrived late; so did the priest who was performing the wedding. In response to the couple’s frustration, the Mexican workers remarked, “Ustedes tienen que ser flexibles,” which in English means “You have to be flexible with time.” This attitude regarding time

Manuela is the director for her company’s African operations. She is interviewing candidates to fill the position of factory manager at the location in the Ivory Coast.  Manuela carefully considers the qualifications of both foreign and domestic applicants to identify the most effective candidate. What type of manager is Manuela aspiring to be?

Ethical behavior based on the opinions and behaviors of other relevant people is the ethical system of_______________.  

Orlando, the owner of a Belgian event-planning company called Memory Makers, plans        to open a marketing company that focuses on product launches, called Kick Start, in Germany. Kick Start will be totally owned and controlled by Memory Makers, which      makes Kick Start a ________ of Memory Makers.