According to Max Weber, rationality in firms means employee selection and advancement based not on whom you know, but rather on competence and technical qualifications, which are assessed by examination or according to specific training and experience. This forms the basis of the approach of the classical perspective of management thinking.

a. scientific management
b. bureaucratic organizations
c. administrative principles
d. behavioral sciences

In a publicly held corporation, - o stockholders rarely trade their stocks o stocks are not usually traded at stock exchanges o a large number of stockholders can buy and sell stock o family members are excluded from holding stock

You're doing research for a public essay on alternative medicine. which of the following sources has the most reliable information? a.a post on a social networking site about the undesired side-effects of different alternative medicinesb.a recent government report comparing the results of alternative and contemporary medicine for a specified diseasec.an anonymous article on a medical website that claims the success of alternative medicined.a 2003 study conducted by a medical research center about the effects of alternative medicine

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.