Workplace Business quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What document legally prevents employees from sharing company secrets?

   Answer: Non-disclosure agreement

   Why: Since 2016, a US NDA must tell staff they may still report crimes, or the employer loses punitive damages and legal fees.

2. 2 Medium

   In the Hawthorne studies, output rose just because workers were what?

   Answer: being observed

   Why: Later re-analyses of the original data found the effect far weaker than the famous write-up claimed.

3. 3 Hard

   What term describes promoting women during company crises?

   Answer: Glass cliff

   Why: The metaphor highlights how leaders placed in precarious turnaround roles face a much higher risk of failure.

4. 4 Easy

   What does the letter 'T' stand for in a corporate SWOT analysis?

   Answer: Threats

   Why: SWOT began in 1965 as SOFT at Stanford Research Institute: satisfactory, opportunities, faults, threats; SWOT itself reached print by 1972.

5. 5 Medium

   In which city was the first modern skyscraper office building constructed?

   Answer: Chicago

   Why: A steel frame carried the weight instead of the walls, which is what let buildings rise while their windows grew.

6. 6 Hard

   In the Dead Sea Effect, which employees leave first?

   Answer: the most talented

   Why: Bruce Webster coined it in 2008: like the Dead Sea, which loses water only by evaporation, the best staff leave and the rest stay.