SITUATION ADAPTABILITY EVALUATION FOR MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL 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 selected. 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. YOU HAVE 4 MINUTES (DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL TOLD TO DO SO.) 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: (A) Tell him you prefer your coffee black. (B) Ask to have him checked out for any communicable diseases. (C) Take a leak in his "OUT" basket. 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: (A) Ask for her hand in marriage. (B) Pretend you've forgotten how to speak English. (C) Repeat the conversation to the daughter and just hope for the best. 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: (A) Offer to come back in about a week when the air has cleared. (B) Point out their chief executive and accuse him of the offense. (C) Challenge anyone in the room to do better. 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: (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. (B) Get everyone drunk and organize a nose picking contest, with a prize going to the first one with a nose bleed. (C) Drop your napkin on the floor and when you bend over to pick it up, blow your nose on your sock. 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: (A) Look him straight in the eye and launch one last convulsive torrent at the front of his Hart, Shaffner & Marx suit. (B) Nail him right in the crotch, banking on the fact he'll never recognize your green face. (C) Grasp his hand and pump it until he P's in his pants. 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: (A) Accidently spill hot coffee on your lap. (B) Slip a note to the waiter to have your customer paged and see if the hand goes away when he does. (C) Excuse yourself and go to the men's room. If he follows, don't come out until you have a signed order. 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: (A) Call on the customer's secretary instead. (B) Explain you were just trolling for queers. (C) Buy a baggy raincoat and head for the school playground. 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: (A) Ask what position she played. (B) Ask if she's still working the streets. (C) Pretend you're suffering amnesia and don't remember your own name.