Principles and Practices of Management Online MCQ Set 27

QN01. What are the main characteristics of an effective control system?

  1. Flexibility, accuracy, timeliness and objectivity
  2. Flexibility, measurability, timeliness and objectivity
  3. Flexibility, accuracy, relevance and objectivity
  4. Flexibility, accuracy, timeliness and relevance
Answer

(A)Flexibility, accuracy, timeliness and objectivity

QN02. What are the three interpersonal roles of managers?

  1. Figurehead, leader and liaison
  2. Spokesperson, leader, coordinator
  3. Director, coordinator, disseminator
  4. Communicator, organiser, spokesperson
Answer

(A)Figurehead, leader and liaison

QN03. What are the two main dimensions of the Ohio Studies into leadership?

  1. Starting position and end position
  2. Initial environment and changed environment
  3. Organisational structure and conditioning
  4. Initiating structure and considerations
Answer

(D)Initiating structure and considerations

QN04. What are workers primarily motivated by according to the instrumental approach?

  1. Peer recognition
  2. Promotion
  3. Greater freedom
  4. Economic reward
Answer

(D)Economic reward

QN05. What assumption is the garbage can model of decision making based on?

  1. Limited knowledge and great insight
  2. Limited knowledge but high level of experience
  3. Limited knowledge and uncertainty
  4. Limited knowledge and high risk
Answer

(C)Limited knowledge and uncertainty

QN06. What characteristic is not a key feature of the 'open systems' model of management?

  1. Morale
  2. Innovation
  3. Growth resource
  4. Adaptation
Answer

(A)Morale

QN07. What do companies that focus on filling a gap in the market engage in?

  1. Direct marketing
  2. Traditional marketing
  3. Niche marketing
  4. Outbound marketing
Answer

(C)Niche marketing

QN08. What do the four 'P's' of marketing relate to?

  1. Product, price, place and promotion
  2. Product, price, press and promotion
  3. Product, price, publicity and promotion
  4. Product, price, post and promotion
Answer

(A)Product, price, place and promotion

QN09. What do you call a style of leadership that takes account of others' views, opinions and ideas?

  1. Laissez-faire
  2. People-oriented
  3. Democratic
  4. Autocratic
Answer

(C)Democratic

QN10. What do you call the understanding of a dominant culture before choosing a suitable control system?

  1. Market control
  2. Bureaucratic control
  3. Clan control
  4. People control
Answer

(C)Clan control

QN11. What does CRM stand for?

  1. Consumer Relations Management
  2. Customer Relationship Marketing
  3. Customer Relationship Management
  4. Consumer Returns Management
Answer

(C)Customer Relationship Management

QN12. What does PEST stand for?

  1. Political, environmental, strategic, testing
  2. Political, environmental, strategic, technological
  3. Political, economic, strategic, technological
  4. Political, economic, social, technological
Answer

(D)Political, economic, social, technological

QN13. What does situational theory of leadership emphasise?

  1. Personality traits
  2. Events
  3. Environment
  4. Political situation
Answer

(B)Events

QN14. What does the acronym SMART stand for?

  1. Suitable, measurable, actionable, rewarded and timely
  2. Specific, measurable, actionable, resourced and timely
  3. Standardised, measurable, achievable, rewarded, and timely
  4. Specific, measurable, achievable, rewarded and timely
Answer

(D)Specific, measurable, achievable, rewarded and timely

QN15. What does Unitarism as a human resource management approach assume?

  1. People are individuals and should be treated as such.
  2. People are individuals but should be part of a group.
  3. People in the organisation share the same aims and objectives.
  4. People in the organisation engage in internal competition.
Answer

(C)People in the organisation share the same aims and objectives.

QN16. What is a definition of an objective?

  1. A defined specified outcome to be achieved in the long-term
  2. A clear set of goals to be attained given a set number of resources
  3. A clearly defined and measurable outcome to be achieved over a specified timeframe
  4. A set standard of performance agreed by workers and managers
Answer

(C)A clearly defined and measurable outcome to be achieved over a specified timeframe

QN17. What is a Gantt chart a type of?

  1. Work flow design
  2. Work schedule design
  3. Work rate design
  4. Work output design
Answer

(B)Work schedule design

QN18. What is a normative perspective?

  1. The way things are.
  2. The way things are going to be.
  3. The way things should be.
  4. The way things were.
Answer

(C)The way things should be.

QN19. What is a paradigm?

  1. A theoretical assumption
  2. An illustration
  3. A theoretical model
  4. An example serving as a model
Answer

(D)An example serving as a model

QN20. What is a PDP?

  1. Personal Development Plan
  2. People Development Plan
  3. Personnel Development Plan
  4. Personal Development Payment
Answer

(A)Personal Development Plan

QN21. What is a social enterprise concerned with?

  1. Profit maximisation
  2. Maximising market share
  3. Providing public service
  4. Running a business to create social benefits
Answer

(D)Running a business to create social benefits

QN22. What is a strategic alliance?

  1. Any form of partnership between one firm and another
  2. Formal agreement committing two or more firms to exchange resources to produce products or services
  3. Formal agreement to share profits from a shared investment
  4. Formal agreement to share knowledge
Answer

(B)Formal agreement committing two or more firms to exchange resources to produce products or services

QN23. What is a succession plan?

  1. Dismissing an employee for a more favourable employee
  2. A formal process of planning to fill a role that will become vacant
  3. A vote of no confidence in a board member
  4. The formal process of acquiring a new staff member
Answer

(B)A formal process of planning to fill a role that will become vacant

QN24. What is a virtual organisation?

  1. An organisation that uses information and communications technologies (ICT's) to coordinate activities without physical boundaries between different functions
  2. An organisation that uses internet technologies to sell products to customers
  3. An organisation that manages the supply chain using digital technologies
  4. An organisation that coordinates the workforce via video conferencing
Answer

(A)An organisation that uses information and communications technologies (ICT's) to coordinate activities without physical boundaries between different functions

QN25. What is a whistleblower?

  1. Someone who reports illegal or unethical acts
  2. Someone who commits illegal or unethical acts
  3. Someone who benefits from illegal or unethical acts
  4. Someone who devises illegal or unethical acts
Answer

(A)Someone who reports illegal or unethical acts

QN26. What is another name for contingency planning?

  1. Synergy planning
  2. Ad hoc planning
  3. Business level planning
  4. Scenario planning
Answer

(D)Scenario planning

QN27. What is characteristic for the location of a virtual team?

  1. In the same building
  2. In the same industry
  3. In the same country
  4. remotely
Answer

(D)remotely

QN28. What is Frank Gilbreth`s work most noted for?

  1. Working conditions
  2. Time and motion studies
  3. Work psychology
  4. Work as a social setting
Answer

(B)Time and motion studies

QN29. What is intuitive decision making based on?

  1. Guesswork
  2. Gambling
  3. Instinct
  4. Rationality
Answer

(C)Instinct

QN30. What is IS?

  1. Intelligent strategy
  2. Internal services
  3. International sales
  4. Information systems
Answer

(D)Information systems

QN31. What is not a characteristic of a corporate social responsibility framework?

  1. Retaining the status quo
  2. Understanding society
  3. Harnessing diversity
  4. Building capacity
Answer

(A)Retaining the status quo

QN32. What is not a component of an agile organisation?

  1. Market focus and position
  2. Human resources: multi-skilling
  3. Organisational structure
  4. Project-based culture
Answer

(D)Project-based culture

QN33. What is not a purpose of an organisational structure?

  1. To coordinate people and resources
  2. To organise lines of communication
  3. To formalise authority
  4. To limit workers' rights
Answer

(D)To limit workers' rights

QN34. What is not an advantage of a hierarchical structure?

  1. Clear chain of command
  2. Quick response to change
  3. Discipline and stability
  4. Small span of control
Answer

(B)Quick response to change

QN35. What is not an assumption underpinning the rational decision making model?

  1. Incomplete information
  2. An agreed goal
  3. A structured problem
  4. High level of certainty regarding the environment
Answer

(A)Incomplete information

QN36. What is not one of the layers of cultural influence?

  1. Social
  2. Business
  3. Organisational
  4. Company
Answer

(D)Company

QN37. What is not part of a marketing plan?

  1. Marketing mix
  2. Demand analysis
  3. Government support
  4. Competitor analysis
Answer

(C)Government support

QN38. What is OD?

  1. Organisational disputes
  2. Organisational development
  3. Organisational demands
  4. Organisational drift
Answer

(B)Organisational development

QN39. What is premise control based on?

  1. Buildings
  2. People
  3. Resources
  4. Assumptions
Answer

(D)Assumptions

QN40. What is T-group training?

  1. A group whose aim is transformational change
  2. A group brought together to deliver training programmes
  3. Team training for the purposes of advancing technology
  4. Team building activities involving learning
Answer

(D)Team building activities involving learning

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