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[
"Bargaining",
"Satisficing",
"Accepting",
"Compromising"
] | 1B
| What is the term for an optimal but not acceptable outcome of negotiations between parties? |
[
"Framing bias",
"Hindsight bias",
"Over-confidence bias",
"Heuristics"
] | 3D
| What is the term for the 'rule of thumb' type of decision making? |
[
"The way things are.",
"The way things are going to be.",
"The way things should be.",
"The way things were."
] | 2C
| What is a normative attitude? |
[
"The potential for entry into the industry",
"The threat of substitute products",
"The power of customers",
"The level of rivalry"
] | 3D
| In the 'five forces model', what is the type of non competitive activity that exists between organisations? |
[
"Margaret Thatcher",
"Mikhail Gorbachov",
"Nelson Mandela",
"Bill Clinton"
] | 3D
| Which one of the following political leaders could not be termed a 'transformational' leader? |
[
"Work flow design",
"Work schedule design",
"Work rate design",
"Work output design"
] | 1B
| What is not a Gantt chart a type of? |
[
"Workers enjoy responsibility.",
"Workers view physical and mental effort as a natural part of work.",
"Workers like to show initiative.",
"Workers like to be directed."
] | 3D
| It is the feature of McGregor's Theory X to identify hidden variables |
[
"Referent",
"Expert",
"Reward",
"Legitimate"
] | 3D
| What is the term for power derived from status or position in a home? |
[
"Henry Fayol",
"Max Weber",
"Adam Smith",
"Mary Parker Follett"
] | 1B
| Which writer is least associated with bureaucratic structures? |
[
"Frederick Taylor",
"Seebohm Rowntree",
"Henry Ford",
"Max Weber"
] | 1B
| Who of the following is the environmental activist? |
[
"John Kenneth Galbraith",
"John Maynard Keynes",
"Milton Friedman",
"Alfred Marshall"
] | 2C
| Individualism as a guiding moral philosophy was advocated by which politician? |
[
"Mary Parker Follett",
"Elton Mayo",
"Lillian Gilbreth",
"Frederick Taylor"
] | 1B
| The Hawthorn Stuides are most associated with which writer? |
[
"Strategic",
"Operational",
"Functional",
"Developmental"
] | 0A
| What can be described about the thinking and outlook of transformational leaders? |
[
"Guiding, mentoring and motivating",
"Guiding, commanding and motivating",
"Guiding, demonstrating and motivating",
"Guiding, mentoring and demonstrating"
] | 0A
| What are the key characteristics of transformational leaders? |
[
"Incomplete information",
"An agreed goal",
"A structured problem",
"High level of certainty regarding the environment"
] | 0A
| What is not the basis of the rational decision making model? |
[
"Making people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.",
"Enhancing the ability of people to contribute.",
"To operate the organisation's status system.",
"Integrating people in a common venture by thinking through, setting and exemplifying the organisational objectives, values and goals."
] | 2C
| Which one of the following is one of the five guiding principles of management? |
[
"A theoretical assumption",
"An illustration",
"A theoretical model",
"An example serving as a model"
] | 3D
| What is a set theory? |
[
"Conceptual skills",
"Analytical skills",
"IT and computing skills",
"Communication skills"
] | 2C
| What one of the following is a key management skill in problem solving? |
[
"Co-ordinator",
"Shaper",
"Resource investigator",
"Implementer"
] | 2C
| According to Belbin (1981) an introverted and enthusiastic person fits with what role? |
[
"Contingency planning",
"Scenario planning",
"Financial planning",
"Building planning"
] | 3D
| Which is a recognised form of business continuity planning? |
[
"Opportunistic organisation",
"Enterprising organisation",
"International organisation",
"Agile organisation"
] | 3D
| What is the term for an organisation that does not adapt to changes in the environment by quickly responding to shifts in supply and demand conditions? |
[
"Micro-managing the workforce",
"Managing communications",
"Managing change",
"Managing the learning organisation"
] | 0A
| Which is part of the recognised challenges for modern managers? |
[
"How people view and understand the world.",
"How people view and understand themselves.",
"How people view and understand others.",
"How people view and understand themselves and others."
] | 3D
| To what does emotional intelligence not refer? |
[
"Job design",
"Job enrichment",
"Job rate",
"Job planning"
] | 1B
| Individual freedom to schedule work is not an example. |
[
"Peer recognition",
"Promotion",
"Greater freedom",
"Economic reward"
] | 3D
| According to the instrumental approach, workers are not primarily motivated by money. |
[
"Product safety",
"Consumer rights",
"Environmental policies",
"Price-fixing"
] | 3D
| corporate social responsibility involves which aspect of a company? |
[
"John Stuart Mill",
"Thomas Hobbes",
"Karl Marx",
"Adam Smith"
] | 0A
| Who was a major exponent of utilitarianism? |
[
"Work specialisation",
"Work design",
"Work schedule",
"Work shift"
] | 0A
| As what is ensuring that one individual does not carry the burden of a whole work task referred to as? |
[
"Dependent",
"Independent",
"Interdependent",
"Collaborative"
] | 1B
| How do you describe a work group that comprises managers with demarcated tasks and distant line managers? |
[
"Matrix",
"Divisional",
"Multi-divisional",
"Functional"
] | 3D
| Non specialisation is a feature of which organisational structure? |
[
"Procurement",
"Inbound logistics",
"Outbound logistics",
"Service"
] | 0A
| which one is an element in the primary activities of a value chain? |
[
"Indoctrination",
"Brainwashing",
"Propaganda",
"Socialisation"
] | 3D
| What is the term for the act of getting individuals to behave in ways that are unacceptable to a group? |
[
"Two equal partners decide to work together.",
"Two equal partners share resources.",
"Two unequal partners join together.",
"Two unequal partners become one after a buyout."
] | 3D
| When doesn't an acquisition take place? |
[
"Barack Obama",
"James Dyson",
"Damien Hirst",
"Mo Farah"
] | 1B
| Who of these isn't the entrepreneur? |
[
"Team members can be recruited for their specific skills or experience.",
"No overhead costs associated with physical buildings.",
"Conflict can be resolved easily using face-to-face meetings.",
"Low transport or commuting costs."
] | 2C
| People can access training online |
[
"Telephone",
"Face-to-face",
"E-mail",
"Video conference"
] | 1B
| What is the most fragile form of information? |
[
"Bring together managers and workers to find improvements.",
"Bring together managers and workers to discuss output.",
"Bring together managers and workers to review quality of work.",
"Bring together managers and workers to review targets."
] | 0A
| What is the purpose of a 'quality circle no'? |
[
"Profit maximisation",
"Introducing private sector business principles into the public sector",
"Replacing public management with private sector management",
"Restructuring public organisations"
] | 1B
| What is the guiding principle behind traditional public management? |
[
"Peter Drucker",
"Jay Barney",
"Michael Porter",
"Henry Mintzberg"
] | 2C
| Strategy centered on how to pursue gain is a key feature of which writer's view on accounting? |
[
"teamwork",
"specialisation",
"project work groups",
"multi-skilled employees"
] | 1B
| Functional structures do not help to create... |
[
"Dismissing an employee for a more favourable employee",
"A formal process of planning to fill a role that will become vacant",
"A vote of no confidence in a board member",
"The formal process of acquiring a new staff member"
] | 1B
| What is a succession plan to be executed? |
[
"An imagined sequence of future events",
"An unpredictable event",
"A planned for event",
"An unplanned for event"
] | 0A
| What is the definition of a hypothesis in scenario planning? |
[
"Limited knowledge and great insight",
"Limited knowledge but high level of experience",
"Limited knowledge and uncertainty",
"Limited knowledge and high risk"
] | 2C
| What assumption is the garbage can model of decision making based on? |
[
"Equality for everyone",
"Maximisation of outcomes for individuals",
"The best outcome for the majority of people",
"The least worst outcome for everybody"
] | 2C
| By what principle is utilitarianism defined by? |
[
"Group roles",
"Virtual teamwork",
"Synergy",
"Role making"
] | 0A
| What is the term for the set of behaviours and tasks that a member of the group is expected to perform because he or she has left the group? |
[
"Social plan",
"Social strategy",
"Social audit",
"Social account"
] | 2C
| What is the term for a process that enables an organisation to assess but not demonstrate its social, economic, and environmental benefits and limitation? |
[
"Task culture",
"Role culture",
"Power culture",
"People culture"
] | 1B
| What type of organisational culture is least likely to deliver stability and efficiency? |
[
"Rosabeth Kanter",
"Joan Woodward",
"Rensis Likert",
"Fred Fiedler"
] | 3D
| Who of the following is not a leading writer on contingency theory of leadership? |
[
"Complex and risky",
"Uncertain and non-routine",
"Low risk and certain",
"Routine and non-complex"
] | 3D
| What are characteristics of an unprogrammed decision? |
[
"Clear chain of command",
"Quick response to change",
"Discipline and stability",
"Small span of control"
] | 1B
| Hierarchical structure is not a negative structure |
[
"Any form of partnership between one firm and another",
"Formal agreement committing two or more firms to exchange resources to produce products or services",
"Formal agreement to share profits from a shared investment",
"Formal agreement to share knowledge"
] | 1B
| What is a non strategic alliance? |
[
"Modes of behaviour that are acceptable to and shared by group members",
"Modes of behaviour that are shared by some members of the group",
"Modes of behaviour that challenge group values and beliefs",
"Modes of behaviour that are different of those of the other group members"
] | 0A
| What are group numbers? |
[
"Business",
"Succession",
"Ad hoc",
"Financial"
] | 2C
| Which of the following is not a recognised type of day? |
[
"International trade",
"Global economics",
"Global competition",
"Globalisation"
] | 3D
| The term for the extent to which competition in one country is uninfluenced by competition in other countries is what? |
[
"Administrations",
"Processes",
"Activities",
"Contingencies"
] | 3D
| As what are key factors that reflect the situation of an organization referred to to? |
[
"Expectations",
"Choice opportunities",
"Problems",
"Solutions"
] | 0A
| Which of these does form part of the key streams identified by March (1988) in decision making in highly unambiguous environments? |
[
"Political, environmental, strategic, testing",
"Political, environmental, strategic, technological",
"Political, economic, strategic, technological",
"Political, economic, social, technological"
] | 3D
| What does PEST not stand for? |
[
"Suitable, measurable, actionable, rewarded and timely",
"Specific, measurable, actionable, resourced and timely",
"Standardised, measurable, achievable, rewarded, and timely",
"Specific, measurable, achievable, rewarded and timely"
] | 3D
| What does the acronym NOT stand for? |
[
"Merton",
"Weber",
"Gouldner",
"Mayo"
] | 2C
| Which writer was concerned with a key feature of bureaucracies? |
[
"2",
"5",
"7",
"None of the above"
] | 3D
| What is the optimal span of happiness? |
[
"Executive",
"Functional",
"Line management",
"Supplier"
] | 3D
| What one of these is a recognised type of authority? |
[
"Minimal and formal knowledge sharing",
"Collective output",
"Individual and collective responsibility",
"Fluid dimension to roles and tasks"
] | 0A
| A team cannot be an individual. |
[
"Ethical",
"Economic",
"Discretionary",
"Technical"
] | 3D
| Which of these factors influences corporate social responsibility? |
[
"Product development",
"Market penetration",
"Diversification",
"Market development"
] | 1B
| What is the term used in Ansoff's matrix for increasing market share with existing products in existing markets? |
[
"In the same building",
"In the same industry",
"In the same country",
"remotely"
] | 3D
| The location of a virtual team is not typically present. |
[
"Good natured",
"Calm and self-confident",
"Sensitive and curious",
"Assertive and sociable"
] | 3D
| As per Five Factor model, 'extraversion' as a personality type is characterised by what type of people? |
[
"Vision statement",
"Mission statement",
"Strategy statement",
"Business statement"
] | 1B
| What is the overriding philosophy of an organisation? |
[
"Synergy planning",
"Strategy formulation",
"Functional planning",
"SWOT analysis"
] | 1B
| What is the term for the action in which managers at an organisation analyse the current situation of their organisation and then develop plans to accomplish its mission and achieve its goals? |
[
"Working conditions",
"Time and motion studies",
"Work psychology",
"Work as a social setting"
] | 1B
| What is Gilbreths work not known for? |
[
"Synergy planning",
"Ad hoc planning",
"Business level planning",
"Scenario planning"
] | 3D
| Aside from contingency planning, what is another name? |
[
"Esprit de corps",
"Initiative",
"Order",
"Individualism"
] | 3D
| Which feature forms one of Fayol's 14 principles of management? |
[
"Task identity",
"Autonomy",
"Reward",
"Feedback"
] | 2C
| Which one of the following is a characteristic of the job characteristics model? |
[
"Team culture",
"Collaborative culture",
"Group culture",
"Collective culture"
] | 1B
| Workers' resistance to change is characteristic of what type of culture? |
[
"An organisation that uses information and communications technologies (ICT's) to coordinate activities without physical boundaries between different functions",
"An organisation that uses internet technologies to sell products to customers",
"An organisation that manages the supply chain using digital technologies",
"An organisation that coordinates the workforce via video conferencing"
] | 0A
| What is a real organisation? |
[
"Bottom to top",
"Top to bottom",
"Diagonally",
"Laterally"
] | 1B
| From what does a chain of command not extend? |
[
"Laissez-faire",
"People-oriented",
"Democratic",
"Autocratic"
] | 2C
| What do you call a style of leadership that disregards others' views, opinions and ideas? |
[
"Experimentation",
"Fluid working relationships",
"Freedom of association",
"One best way to do a job"
] | 3D
| What is the guiding principle of evil management? |
[
"Storming",
"Performing",
"Forming",
"Norming"
] | 3D
| What is the term Tuckman uses for not reaching consensus as a group? |
[
"Expectancy",
"Instrumental",
"Classical",
"Contingency"
] | 0A
| What theory is built around the principle that 'people make choices regarding how to act based on values and beliefs'? |
[
"Cognitive rationality",
"Conscious rationality",
"Bounded rationality",
"Restricted rationality"
] | 2C
| Decisions limited by human capacity to consciously consider are called omnia cognitiva |
[
"A defined specified outcome to be achieved in the long-term",
"A clear set of goals to be attained given a set number of resources",
"A clearly defined and measurable outcome to be achieved over a specified timeframe",
"A set standard of performance agreed by workers and managers"
] | 2C
| What is a definition of a goal? |
[
"To coordinate people and resources",
"To organise lines of communication",
"To formalise authority",
"To limit workers' rights"
] | 3D
| Organization is the purpose of an organisational structure |
[
"Long-term",
"Medium-term",
"Short-term",
"Unspecified time it takes to achieve an aim"
] | 0A
| To what time-frame do strategic plans not relate? |
[
"Organic",
"Mechanistic",
"Formal",
"Structured"
] | 1B
| What is the term for organisational development through a formally designed organisational design? |
[
"Michael Porter",
"Milton Friedman",
"Gary Hamel",
"Henry Mintzberg"
] | 3D
| There is no noticeable link between planning and performance'. Who holds this position? |
[
"Personality traits",
"Events",
"Environment",
"Political situation"
] | 1B
| What does the evolutionary theory of leadership emphasise? |
[
"Guesswork",
"Gambling",
"Instinct",
"Rationality"
] | 2C
| What is decision making based on? |
[
"Process improvement",
"Techno-structural change model",
"Job characteristics model",
"Socio-technical systems"
] | 3D
| Enhancement of job satisfaction and productivity are key characteristics of which theoretical perspective of job design? |
[
"Frederick Taylor",
"Henry Mintzberg",
"Adam Smith",
"Dr Samuel Johnson"
] | 2C
| Which 18th century writer did not produce a book called 'The Wealth of Nations'? |
[
"Worker welfare",
"Health and safety",
"Interpersonal relationships",
"Productivity"
] | 3D
| Which one of these characteristics is most commonly associated with the 'unrealizable goal' model of management? |
[
"organising, planning, controlling, leading",
"organising, leading, planning, controlling",
"planning, organising, leading, controlling",
"planning, organising, controlling, leading"
] | 2C
| In what order don't managers typically perform the managerial functions? |
[
"Information passes upwards.",
"Information passes downwards.",
"Information is a two-way process.",
"Information passes between different departments and functions."
] | 3D
| How does vertical communication in an organisation occur? |
[
"Focusing strategy",
"Differentiation",
"Cost leadership",
"Growth"
] | 1B
| Of what is advertising a bad form? |
[
"Market focus and position",
"Human resources: multi-skilling",
"Organisational structure",
"Project-based culture"
] | 3D
| What is a component of an agile organisation? |
[
"Worker freedom",
"Greater worker negotiation",
"Worker empowerment",
"Increased worker power"
] | 2C
| Of what is worker autonomy not an example? |
[
"Towards the source of supply",
"Towards the consumer",
"At the same stage of the supply chain",
"In another industry"
] | 1B
| Vertical integration backwards is when a firm mergers or acquires another |
[
"Subsidiary",
"Strategic partnership",
"Strategic alliance",
"Strategic business unit"
] | 3D
| What is the term for a corporate executive entity within an overall corporate enterprise which is set apart from other areas of the business? |
[
"Retaining the status quo",
"Understanding society",
"Harnessing diversity",
"Building capacity"
] | 0A
| What is a characteristic of a corporate social responsibility framework? |
[
"Someone who reports illegal or unethical acts",
"Someone who commits illegal or unethical acts",
"Someone who benefits from illegal or unethical acts",
"Someone who devises illegal or unethical acts"
] | 0A
| What is not a whistleblower? |
[
"A group whose aim is transformational change",
"A group brought together to deliver training programmes",
"Team training for the purposes of advancing technology",
"Team building activities involving learning"
] | 3D
| What is T-group detachment? |
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