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- SITUATION ADAPTABILITY EVALUATION
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- FOR MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL
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- This test has been designed to evaluate reactions of
- management personnel to various situations. The situations
- are based on actual case studies from a well known
- educational institution and represent a cross section of test
- data correlated to evaluate both reaction time to difficult
- situations as well as the soundness of each decision
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- There are eight multiple choice questions. Read each
- question thoroughly. Place an "X" by the answer you feel is
- most correctly justified by the circumstances given. Be
- prepared to justify your decision.
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- YOU HAVE 4 MINUTES
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- (DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO.)
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- You have prepared a proposal for the regional director of
- purchasing for your largest customer. The success of this
- presentation will mean increasing your sales to his company
- by 200%. In the middle of your proposal, the customer leans
- over to look at your report and spits into your coffee. You:
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- (A) Tell him you prefer your coffee black.
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- (B) Ask to have him checked out for any
- communicable diseases.
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- (C) Take a leak in his "OUT" basket.
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- You are having lunch with a prospective customer talking
- about what could be your biggest sale of the year. During
- the conversation, a blond walks into the restaurant and she
- is so stunning you draw your companions attention to her and
- give a vivid description of what you would do if you had her
- alone in your motel room. She walks over to your table and
- introduces herself as your client's daughter. You're next
- move is:
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- (A) Ask for her hand in marriage.
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- (B) Pretend you've forgotten how to speak English.
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- (C) Repeat the conversation to the daughter and
- just hope for the best.
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- You are making a sales presentation to a group of corporate
- executives in the plushest office you have ever seen. The
- hot enchilada casserole and egg salad sandwich you had for
- lunch inter-react, creating extreme pressure. Your sphincter
- looses it's control and you break wind in a most convincing
- manner causing three water tumblers to shatter and a
- secretary to pass out. What you should do next is:
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- (A) Offer to come back in about a week when the
- air has cleared.
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- (B) Point out their chief executive and accuse him
- of the offense.
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- (C) Challenge anyone in the room to do better.
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- You are at a business lunch when you are suddenly overcome
- with an uncontrollable desire to pick your nose. Remembering
- this is a definite "No-No", You should:
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- (A) Wave at some imaginary person across the room
- and with one fluid motion, bury your
- forefinger in your nostril up to the fourth
- joint.
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- (B) Get everyone drunk and organize a nose picking
- contest, with a prize going to the first one
- with a nose bleed.
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- (C) Drop your napkin on the floor and when you
- bend over to pick it up, blow your nose on
- your sock.
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- You've just spent the evening with a supplier who invited you
- to an all night "boiler-maker" drinking party. You get home
- just in time to go to work. You stagger to the men's room
- and spend the next half hour vomiting. As you're washing up
- at the sink, the sales training director walks up, blows his
- cigar in your face, and asks you to join him for drinks after
- work. You:
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- (A) Look him straight in the eye and launch one
- last convulsive torrent at the front of his
- Hart, Shaffner & Marx suit.
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- (B) Nail him right in the crotch, banking on the
- fact he'll never recognize your green face.
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- (C) Grasp his hand and pump it until he P's in his
- pants.
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- You are at dinner with a customer and his wife, who just
- happens to look like the regional runner-up of the Marjorie
- Main look-a-like contest. Halfway through dinner you feel a
- hand on your lap. If you are resourceful you will:
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- (A) Accidently spill hot coffee on your lap.
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- (B) Slip a note to the waiter to have your
- customer paged and see if the hand goes away
- when he does.
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- (C) Excuse yourself and go to the men's room. If
- he follows, don't come out until you have a
- signed order.
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- You're on your way in to see your best account when your
- zipper breaks and you discover that you forgot to put on your
- underpants that morning. You decide to:
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- (A) Call on the customer's secretary instead.
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- (B) Explain you were just trolling for queers.
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- (C) Buy a baggy raincoat and head for the school
- playground.
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- You've just returned form a trip to Green Bay, Wisconsin in
- January and tell your boss that nobody but whores and
- football players live there. He mentions that his wife is
- from Green Bay. You:
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- (A) Ask what position she played.
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- (B) Ask if she's still working the streets.
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- (C) Pretend you're suffering amnesia and don't
- remember your own name.
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