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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toffler call the new management class?
(a) Bureaucracy.
(b) Totalitarianism.
(c) Ad-Hocracy.
(d) Technocracy.

2. What is NOT a characteristic of the bureaucracy?
(a) Organizational relationships are permanent.
(b) People occupy a place in the vertical hierarchy.
(c) People are free to move from one role to another.
(d) People occupy a place in the division of labor.

3. What does Toffler say subgroups compete for?
(a) Power.
(b) Advertising dollars.
(c) Funding.
(d) Members.

4. With whom does a person have medium-term relationships, according to Toffler?
(a) Clerks.
(b) Barbers.
(c) Neighbors.
(d) Family.

5. What will be the new influence on the economy of the future?
(a) New human needs.
(b) New financial mechanisms.
(c) New methods of production.
(d) New forms of payment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people experience their moral values, in Toffler's future?

2. What industries does Toffler say will grow in the economy of the future?

3. What does Toffler use as an example of companies of the future?

4. How have careers changed in super-industrial culture?

5. What is the economics of transience?

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