1. Gina realizes her department needs to make some changes in its control system to better prevent employee theft. The department is one of five in her division, and she is not sure which approach will work best for the organization. To date, Gina has not strictly enforced many of the regulations established by the head office because her department is self-regulating. The work groups set their goals and ensure those goals are achieved. Everyone is well aware of the expected standards and work behaviours, and there is little tolerance for workers who do not meet the group norms. However, metrics show that employee theft has become a problem. Which of the following is a concurrent control that Gina should consider adopting?

Question 1 options:

	a. using careful prehiring screening
	b. evaluating the organizational culture
	c. hiring private investigators
	d. using corporate hotlines for reporting theft

2. Gurpreet is Executive Director of a large national non-profit organization. She has a staff of 30 who are lacking in motivation and direction. The recently held national conference was poorly organized and conference revenue was down 35%, despite having a dedicated staff member managing the project with five junior employees. There was some rumbling among employees that the conference manager was a laissez faire manager and provided little direction.

Gurpreet should expect employees from a low uncertainty avoidance culture to ________.

Question 2 options:

	a. seek challenging goals
	b. be more dependent
	c. be less motivated
	d. be less assertive

3. Goal setting theory is well adapted to Canada because of our low uncertainty avoidance. Which of the following is an example of low uncertainty avoidance?

Question 3 options:

	a. being independent
	b. performance is considered important by managers
	c. performance is considered important by subordinates
	d. seeking challenging goals