WGU C483 Principles of Management OA & PA Exam Study Guide

WGU C483 Principles of Management 2026| Practice Questions &
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Prepare for WGU C483: Principles of Management with this comprehensive study guide
featuring original practice questions, detailed answer explanations, and exam-focused review
material. Topics include management functions, planning, organizing, leading, controlling,
organizational structure, leadership theories, motivation, decision-making, communication,
strategic management, ethics, and organizational behavior aligned with the course competencies.
Designed to strengthen management knowledge and improve Objective Assessment readiness,
this guide helps WGU business students build confidence and achieve academic success.

Accommodation - CORRECT ANSWER A style of dealing with conflict involving
cooperation on behalf of the other party but not being assertive about one's own
interests

QUESTION :Accountability - CORRECT ANSWER The expectation that employees
will perform a job, take corrective action when necessary, and report upward on the
status and quality of their performance

QUESTION :Accounting audits - CORRECT ANSWER Procedures used to verify
accounting reports and statements

QUESTION :Acquisition - CORRECT ANSWER One firm buying another

QUESTION :Activity-based costing (ABC) - CORRECT ANSWER A method of cost
accounting designed to identify streams of activity and then to allocate costs across
particular business processes according to the amount of time employees devote to
particular activities

QUESTION :Adapters - CORRECT ANSWER Companies that take the current
industry structure and its evolution as givens, and choose where to compete

QUESTION :Adverse impact - CORRECT ANSWER When a seemingly neutral
employment practice has a disproportionately negative effect on a protected group

QUESTION :Advertising support model - CORRECT ANSWER Charging fees to
advertise on a site

QUESTION :Affective conflict - CORRECT ANSWER Emotional disagreement
directed toward other people

QUESTION :Affiliate model - CORRECT ANSWER Charging fees to direct site
visitors to other companies' sites

QUESTION :Affirmative action - CORRECT ANSWER Special efforts to recruit and
hire qualified members of groups that have been discriminated against in the past

, QUESTION :After-action review - CORRECT ANSWER A frank and open-minded
discussion of four basic questions aimed at continuous improvement

QUESTION :Alderfer's ERG theory - CORRECT ANSWER A human needs theory
postulating that people have three basic sets of needs that can operate simultaneously
(Existence, Relatedness and Growth)

QUESTION :Arbitration - CORRECT ANSWER The use of a neutral third party to
resolve a labor dispute

QUESTION :Assessment center - CORRECT ANSWER A managerial performance
test in which candidates participate in a variety of exercises and situations

QUESTION :Assets - CORRECT ANSWER The values of the various items the
corporation owns

QUESTION :Authentic leadership - CORRECT ANSWER A style in which the leader
is true to himself or herself while leading

QUESTION :Authority - CORRECT ANSWER The legitimate right to make decisions
and to tell other people what to do

QUESTION :Autocratic leadership - CORRECT ANSWER A form of leadership in
which the leader makes decisions on his or her own and then announces those
decisions to the group

QUESTION :Autonomous work groups - CORRECT ANSWER Groups that control
decisions about and execution of a complete range of tasks

QUESTION :Avoidance - CORRECT ANSWER A reaction to conflict that involves
ignoring the problem by doing nothing at all or deemphasizing the disagreement

QUESTION :Balanced scorecard - CORRECT ANSWER Control system combining
four sets of performance measures: financial, customer, business process, and learning
and growth

QUESTION :Balance sheet - CORRECT ANSWER A report that shows the financial
picture of a company at a given time and itemizes assets, liabilities, and stockholders'
equity

QUESTION :Barriers to entry - CORRECT ANSWER Conditions that prevent new
companies from entering an industry

QUESTION :Behavioral approach - CORRECT ANSWER A leadership perspective
that attempts to identify what good leaders do—that is, what behaviors they exhibit

, QUESTION :Benchmarking - CORRECT ANSWER The process of comparing an
organization's practices and technologies with those of other companies

QUESTION :Bootlegging - CORRECT ANSWER Informal work on projects, other
than those officially assigned, of employees' own choosing and initiative

QUESTION :Boundaryless organization - CORRECT ANSWER Organization in
which there are no barriers to information flow

QUESTION :Boundary-spanning - CORRECT ANSWER Interacting with people in
other groups, thus creating linkages between groups

QUESTION :Bounded rationality - CORRECT ANSWER A less-than-perfect form of
rationality in which decision makers cannot be perfectly rational because decisions are
complex and complete information is unavailable or cannot be fully processed

QUESTION :Brainstorming - CORRECT ANSWER A process in which group
members generate as many ideas about a problem as they can; criticism is withheld
until all ideas have been proposed

QUESTION :Broker - CORRECT ANSWER A person who assembles and
coordinates participants in a network

QUESTION :Budgeting - CORRECT ANSWER The process of investigating what is
being done and comparing the results with the corresponding budget data to verify
accomplishments or remedy differences; also called budgetary controlling

QUESTION :Buffering - CORRECT ANSWER Creating supplies of excess resources
in case of unpredictable needs

QUESTION :Bureaucratic control - CORRECT ANSWER The use of rules,
regulations, and authority to guide performance

QUESTION :Business accelerators - CORRECT ANSWER Organization that
provides support and advice to help young businesses grow

QUESTION :Business ethics - CORRECT ANSWER The moral principles and
standards that guide behavior in the world of business

QUESTION :Business incubators - CORRECT ANSWER Protected environments for
new, small businesses

QUESTION :Business plan - CORRECT ANSWER A formal planning step that
focuses on the entire venture and describes all the elements involved in starting it

, QUESTION :Business strategy - CORRECT ANSWER The major actions by which a
business competes in a particular industry or market

QUESTION :Cafeteria benefit program - CORRECT ANSWER An employee benefit
program in which employees choose from a menu of options to create a benefit
package tailored to their needs

QUESTION :Carbon footprint - CORRECT ANSWER The output of carbon dioxide
and other greenhouses gases

QUESTION :Caux Principles - CORRECT ANSWER Ethical principles established
by international executives based in Caux, Switzerland, in collaboration with business
leaders from Japan, Europe, and the United States

QUESTION :Centralized organization - CORRECT ANSWER An organization in
which high-level executives make most decisions and pass them down to lower levels
for implementation

QUESTION :Certainty - CORRECT ANSWER The state that exists when decision
makers have accurate and comprehensive information

QUESTION :Charismatic leader - CORRECT ANSWER A person who is dominant,
self-confident, convinced of the moral righteousness of his or her beliefs, and able to
arouse a sense of excitement and adventure in followers

QUESTION :Chief information officer (CIO) - CORRECT ANSWER Executive in
charge of information technology strategy and development

QUESTION :Clan control - CORRECT ANSWER Control based on the norms,
values, shared goals, and trust among group members

QUESTION :Coaching - CORRECT ANSWER Dialogue with a goal of helping
another be more effective and achieve his or her full potential on the job

QUESTION :Coalitional model - CORRECT ANSWER Model of organizational
decision making in which groups with differing preferences use power and negotiation to
influence decisions

QUESTION :Cognitive conflict - CORRECT ANSWER Issue-based differences in
perspectives or judgments

QUESTION :Cohesiveness - CORRECT ANSWER The degree to which a group is
attractive to its members, members are motivated to remain in the group, and members
influence one another