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Chapter 7

Multiple Choice

Multiple Choice

This activity contains 7 questions.

	The main goal of public relations is to help organizations   adjust and adapt to their environments. change their environments to adjust to organizations. conduct a sustained saturation campaign to influence organizations' publics. All of the above.

	To prosper and endure, all organizations must do which of the following?   accept the public responsibility imposed by an increasingly interdependent society achieve integration into the communities that organizations serve. communicate with publics that are often distant and diverse. All of the above.

	When an organization plans for, avoids, or prevents problems, the organization is using   a reactive strategy. a proactive strategy. the same method that the city of Amarillo used in not welcoming Oprah Winfrey after the mad cow disease program aired. a closed system model of planning.

	Open systems   exchange inputs and outputs through boundaries that are permeable. adjust and adapt to counteract or accommodate environmental variations. adjust in both system structure and processes. exhibit more flexibility than closed systems in adjusting to inputs. All of the above.

	"A set of interacting units that endures through time within an established boundary by responding and adjusting to change pressures from the environment to achieve and maintain goal states" defines__________.   a subsystem. a system. a suprasystem. homeostasis.

	To remain the same, open systems must   change. close. maintain a static state. combat morphogenesis.

	In the open systems model of public relations, the primary purpose of public relations is to   help effect a change in an organization's environment. take a functionary approach. discourage negative feedback that may hinder the organization's goals. take a functional approach. All of the above.

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