Question

The downside of increased reliance on technology in the workplace includes ____.

a gradual dehumanizing effect in which we lose sight of people’s personalities and humor
the ability to communicate at a moment’s notice
the ability to become and remain more productive
access to more information than has ever before been available

E-mail policies should ____.

explain the cost of the servers and hardware that make e-mailing possible
publish the e-mail addresses of every employee and company customer stored on the e-mail server
record and then publish the number of e-mails sent each day by employees
clearly state that all company e-mails remain the property of the company and do not have any privacy protection

Which of the following is not a reason many new businesses fail within the first five years?

lack of business experience
insufficient capital
a very detailed business plan
over investment in fixed assets

When looking at the purchase of accounting software, things to avoid include ____.

software that is able to be updated as tax laws and accounting principles change
software that has the ability to be augmented with additional modules that may become important to you later
software that requires a high annual subscription whether you want the updates or not
software that integrates well with your office productivity software such as spreadsheet, calendar and word processing


If you provide a service to clients and charge by the hour, you should purchase software that handles ____.

time management
word processing
general accounting
calendar functions

As we move toward a cashless society, which of the following will become vital for businesses that meet clients away from the office?

cash registers
calculator
abacus
POS card reader


IBM and several other computer manufacturers actually became household words when they designed equipment to benefit _____.

factories that had changed from consumer production to the manufacture of airplanes, canned food and other supplies for World War II
themselves
the emerging video production market
telephone companies

Answer 1

1) A) a gradual dehumanizing effect in which we lose sight of people’s personalities and humor - Technology can be dehumanizing because it is artifical, and humans have not necessarily evolved to adapt to it. Philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Jacques Ellul have warned about the dehumanizing effects of technology in the past, when it wasn't so prevalent in society

2) C) clearly state that all company e-mails remain the property of the company and do not have any privacy protection - As long as the e-mails referred to are corporate e-mail, and not personal e-mail, the firm can legally monitor all this information as part of its corporate e-mail policy.

3) C) a very detailed business plan over investment in fixed assets - Investment in fixed assets is for the most part a safe bet to obtain profit, therefor a firm that has a good investment strategy on fixed assets will be unlikely to fail.

4) C) software that requires a high annual subscription whether you want the updates or not - this would represent higher unnecessary costs in an intagible asset.

5) A) time management - in order to make sure that the hours are billed correctly.

6) D) POS card reader - self-explanatory. Ideally, POS card readers will be portable.

7) D) telephone companies - Specifically, IBM became a telephone giant, and for that reason was broken up by anti-trust laws in the 1980s.

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