What Can Applying the Sociological Imagination Tell Us About Unemployment

question 3

Multiple Choice

What can applying the sociological imagination tell us about unemployment and homelessness?

• A) Homelessness and unemployment are almost always the result of individual choices.
• B) Unemployment, but not homelessness, is almost always the result of individual choices.
• C) Anyone is just as likely as another to become either unemployed or homeless.
• D) Unemployment and homelessness can be due to changing social forces beyond an individual's control.

Explain the concept of market, clan, and self-control within organizations.

Understand project management fundamentals and tools such as CPM/PERT and Gantt charts.

Recognize management by exception and its application.

Differentiate between various performance comparison approaches (historical, engineering, relative).

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Definitions:

Self-interest

The consideration of one's own advantages or benefits in decision making or behavior.

Productivity

The measure of efficiency of a person, machine, factory, system, etc., in converting inputs into useful outputs.

Scientific Management

A theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows, aiming to improve economic efficiency, especially labor productivity, by scientific means.

Labor Efficiency

A measure of produced output by a labor unit or units in a defined time period, indicating productivity.