International Institute of Management and TechnologyQuality ManagementPart A: Attempt all the following:10*2=20 Marks1.When a manager monitors the work performance of workers in his department todetermine if the quality of their work is 'up to standard', this manager is engaging inwhich function?a) Planningb) Controlling✓c) Organizingd) Leading 7/17/2020Oxford University Press | Online Resource Centre | Multiple choice questionsCombe: Introduction to ManagementChapter 6: Multiple choice questionsYou have answered 1 out of 10 questions correctly.Your percentage score is 10%.Question 1When a manager monitors the work performance of workers in his department to determine if the quality of their work is 'up to standard', thismanager is engaging in which function?
321. What are the main characteristics of an effective control system?
Correct answer: (A) 322. What are the three interpersonal roles of managers?
Correct answer: (A) 323. What are the two main dimensions of the Ohio Studies into leadership?
Correct answer: (D) 324. What are workers primarily motivated by according to the instrumental approach?
Correct answer: (D) 325. What assumption is the garbage can model of decision making based on?
Correct answer: (C) 326. What characteristic is not a key feature of the 'open systems' model of management?
Correct answer: (A) 327. What do companies that focus on filling a gap in the market engage in?
Correct answer: (C) 328. What do the four 'P's' of marketing relate to?
Correct answer: (A) 329. What do you call a style of leadership that takes account of others' views, opinions and ideas?
Correct answer: (C) 330. What do you call the understanding of a dominant culture before choosing a suitable control system?
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331. What does CRM stand for?
Correct answer: (C) 332. What does PEST stand for?
Correct answer: (D) 333. What does situational theory of leadership emphasise?
Correct answer: (B) 334. What does the acronym SMART stand for?
Correct answer: (D) 335. What does Unitarism as a human resource management approach assume?
Correct answer: (C) 336. What is a definition of an objective?
Correct answer: (C) 337. What is a Gantt chart a type of?
Correct answer: (B) 338. What is a normative perspective?
Correct answer: (C) 339. What is a paradigm?
Correct answer: (D) 340. What is a PDP?
Correct answer: (A) Page 3
341. What is a social enterprise concerned with?
Correct answer: (D) 342. What is a strategic alliance?
Correct answer: (B) 343. What is a succession plan?
Correct answer: (B) 344. What is a virtual organisation?
Correct answer: (A) 345. What is a whistleblower?
Correct answer: (A) 346. What is another name for contingency planning?
Correct answer: (D) 347. What is characteristic for the location of a virtual team?
Correct answer: (D) 348. What is Frank Gilbreth`s work most noted for?
Correct answer: (B) 349. What is intuitive decision making based on?
Correct answer: (C) 350. What is IS?
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351. What is not a characteristic of a corporate social responsibility framework?
Correct answer: (A) 352. What is not a component of an agile organisation?
Correct answer: (D) 353. What is not a purpose of an organisational structure?
Correct answer: (D) 354. What is not an advantage of a hierarchical structure?
Correct answer: (B) 355. What is not an assumption underpinning the rational decision making model?
Correct answer: (A) 356. What is not one of the layers of cultural influence?
Correct answer: (D) 357. What is not part of a marketing plan?
Correct answer: (C) 358. What is OD?
Correct answer: (B) 359. What is premise control based on?
Correct answer: (D) 360. What is T-group training?
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361. What is the definition of a scenario in scenario planning?
Correct answer: (A) 362. What is the first step in a 'Stage gate' process?
Correct answer: (D) 363. What is the first step in a control process?
Correct answer: (D) 364. What is the guiding principle behind New Public Management?
Correct answer: (B) 365. What is the guiding principle of scientific management?
Correct answer: (D) 366. What is the optimal span of control?
Correct answer: (D) 367. What is the overriding philosophy underpinning the strategic direction of an organisation?
Correct answer: (B) 368. What is the personnel department in an organisation concerned with?
Correct answer: (D) 369. What is the purpose of a 'quality circle'?
Correct answer: (A) 370. What is the purpose of employee relations?
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371. What is the richest form of information?
Correct answer: (B) 372. What is the term for a market that is defined by specific characteristics?
Correct answer: (D) 373. What is the term for a process that enables an organisation to assess and demonstrate its social, economic, and environmental benefits and limitation?
Correct answer: (C) 374. What is the term for a radical rethinking of the nature of the business?
Correct answer: (D) 375. What is the term for a sub-optimal but acceptable outcome of negotiations between parties?
Correct answer: (B) 376. What is the term for an autonomous business entity within an overall corporate enterprise which is set apart from other areas of the business?
Correct answer: (D) 377. What is the term for an organisation that adapts to changes in the environment by quickly responding to shifts in supply and demand conditions?
Correct answer: (D) 378. What is the term for decisions limited by human capacity to absorb and analyse information?
Correct answer: (C) 379. What is the term for forcing people to accept change?
Correct answer: (D) 380. What is the term for gaining consumers' express agreement to receive marketing material?
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381. What is the term for incremental changes to processes in an organisation using information technology?
Correct answer: (A) 382. What is the term for organisational development through a formally designed organisational structure?
Correct answer: (B) 383. What is the term for power derived from status or position in an organisation?
Correct answer: (D) 384. What is the term for the 'rule of thumb' type of bias in decision making?
Correct answer: (D) 385. What is the term for the act of acquiring an IS architecture from the market?
Correct answer: (C) 386. What is the term for the act of getting individuals to behave in ways that are acceptable to a group?
Correct answer: (D) 387. 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?
Correct answer: (B) 388. What is the term for the development and design of value adding products and/or services to meet the demand characteristics of individual customers?
Correct answer: (B) 389. What is the term for the extent to which competition in one country is influenced by competition in other countries?
Correct answer: (D) 390. What is the term for the monitoring of events both internal and external to the organisation that affects strategy?
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391. What is the term for the phenomenon that a new IT system is implemented across the whole organisation simultaneously?
Correct answer: (B) 392. 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 is a member of the group?
Correct answer: (A) 393. What is the term Tuckman uses for reaching consensus as a group?
Correct answer: (D) 394. What is the term used in Ansoff's matrix for increasing market share with existing products in existing markets?
Correct answer: (B) 395. What is the weakest form of control?
Correct answer: (C) 396. What one of the following is not a characteristic of the job characteristics model?
Correct answer: (C) 397. What one of the following is not a key management skill in planning?
Correct answer: (C) 398. What one of these is not a recognised type of authority?
Correct answer: (D) 399. What tasks does Human resource management involve?
Correct answer: (D) 400. What theory is built around the principle that 'people make choices regarding how to behave based on values and beliefs'?
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401. What type of organisational culture is most likely to deliver stability and efficiency?
Correct answer: (B) 402. What work arrangement is referred to as Flexitime?
Correct answer: (D) 403. When a manager monitors the work performance of workers in his department to determine if the quality of their work is 'up to standard', this manager is engaging in which function?
Correct answer: (B) 404. When does an acquisition take place?
Correct answer: (D) 405. Where can formal employee training and education take place?
Correct answer: (D) 406. Where was Total Quality Management first developed? 407. Which 18th century writer produced a famous book called 'The Wealth of Nations'?
Correct answer: (C) 408. Which element of the cultural web forms regalia?
Correct answer: (A) 409. Which feature does not form one of Fayol's 14 principles of management?
Correct answer: (D) 410. Which is not a characteristic of corporate social responsibility?
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411. Which is not a recognised form of business continuity planning?
Correct answer: (D) 412. Which is not an example of an external factor for learning and knowledge?
Correct answer: (D) 413. Which is not an implementation activity for an information system?
Correct answer: (A) 414. Which of the following are key components of a Total Quality Management system?
Correct answer: (D) 415. Which of the following does not form the basis of a performance indicator for a marketing plan?
Correct answer: (A) 416. Which of the following is not a recognised type of plan?
Correct answer: (C) 417. Which of the following is not included in a job design?
Correct answer: (D) 418. Which of the following is not part of Schein's model of the formation of culture?
Correct answer: (B) 419. Which of the following motivators is the most basic need in Maslow's hierarchy?
Correct answer: (C) 420. Which of these does not form part of the key streams identified by March (1988) in decision making in highly ambiguous environments?
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421. Which of these factors is not one of the competing responsibilities that influence corporate social responsibility?
Correct answer: (D) 422. Which of these is not an advantage of a virtual team?
Correct answer: (C) 423. Which of these is not part of human resource policy?
Correct answer: (D) 424. Which of these is not part of the recognised challenges for modern managers?
Correct answer: (A) 425. Which one is not a recognised key skill of management?
Correct answer: (D) 426. Which one is not an element in the primary activities of a value chain?
Correct answer: (A) 427. Which one is not part of Lewin's (1952) three step approach to change?
Correct answer: (B) 428. Which one of the following is a feature of McGregor's Theory X?
Correct answer: (D) 429. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of a bureaucratic organisation?
Correct answer: (D) 430. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of a team?
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431. Which one of the following is not one of Drucker's five guiding principles of management?
Correct answer: (C) 432. Which one of the following political leaders could not be termed a 'transformational' leader?
Correct answer: (D) 433. Which one of these characteristics is most commonly associated with the 'rational goal' model of management?
Correct answer: (D) 434. Which writer is most associated with bureaucratic structures?
Correct answer: (B) 435. Which writer was concerned with the reaction of workers to key characteristics of bureaucracies?
Correct answer: (C) 436. Who of the following is a leading writer on contingency theory of leadership?
Correct answer: (D) 437. Who of the following is the industrial philanthropist?
Correct answer: (B) 438. Who of these is the entrepreneur?
Correct answer: (B) 439. Who was a major protagonist of utilitarianism?
Correct answer: (A) 440. Workers' acceptance of change is characteristic of what type of culture?
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441. 'There is no discernible link between planning and performance'. Who is this position held by?
Correct answer: (D) 442. According to Belbin (1981) an extroverted and enthusiastic person fits with what role?
Correct answer: (C) 443. According to Lewin, Lippet and White's 1939 experiment, which form of leadership produced the most work from participants?
Correct answer: (C) 444. According to the Five Factor model, 'extraversion' as a personality type is characterised by what type of people?
Correct answer: (D) 445. As what are key factors that reflect the situation of an organisation referred to?
Correct answer: (D)
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