Management Mid-term in class questions

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True or False: trend management is looking at trends and discontinuities and imagining possible alternative futures

False and that is the definition of scenario-building

True or False: you can hire competitive intelligence professionals to scan the external environment for research

True

The bias in when looking only at the previous years sales to estimate sales for the coming year is called

Being influenced by initial impressions

One of the problems is marketing peeps never communicate with production people this is poor

Coordination

Your Answer for B

Customers, Partners

Which decision style is used by people who prefer simple clear-cut solutions to problems

Directive

GardenGrow is a garden supply company that produces and sells garden tools. Here is the organizational chart showing the structure or departmentalization for gardengrow. Which one is it

Divisional

True or False: Cost leadership is strategy seeking to distinguish its materials from that of competitors

False

True or False: Economic responsibility defines what society deems as important with respect to appropriate corporate behavior

False

True or False: Filling tow vacancies in a department is a nonprogrammed decision

False

True or False: Front line mangers have the final responsibility for strategic planning

False

True or False: Making a choice is the most significant part of the decision-making process.

False

True or False: in a job interview this question is legal: "have you ever been injured on the job and filed for workers' compensation?"

False

True or False: in the strategic approach to human resource management, organizational screening model when they are trying to find the right people

False

This structure can result in poor communication across departments and decisions can get backed up at the top of organization

Functional

Focusing manger and employee efforts on activities goal attainment is a benefit of

Management by objectives

What image would you have used for A?

New Venture Teams

Your Answer for C

New Venture Teams

Significant company-wide change revision of its processes (more horizontal coordination) is called

Reengineering

Blank departments include all of those that provide special skills in support of blank departments

Staff, line

Which of the following factors is NOT associated with larger span of control?

Subordinates are located at various locations

Which of the following concepts argues that organizations can find innovative ways to create wealth at the same time they are preserving natural resources?

Sustainability

Federated investors has a blank structure with each mutual fund being managed by several portfolio mangers who together take

Team-Based Structure

True or False: Framework in which the org defines how task resource and coordination is organizational structure

True

True or False: The CSR approach to ethical decision making debates about what is right, good or just and bases decisions on prevailing standards of the profession and the larger society, taking the interests of all stakeholder into account

True

True or False: The dog according to the BCG matrix is a poor performer

True

True or False: The pure functional structure is important for achieving efficiency goals in stable environment

True

True or False: Uncertainty is when the goal is clear but there is no clear solution to the problem

True

True or False: across different situations the most effective managers change their decision style

True

True or False: if your group departments with common skills and activities, its called vertical functional approach

True

True or False: organizational development mangers help with mergers\acquisitions, organizational decline or revitalization, and conflict

True

Which of the following would NOT be included among the characteristics of a multinational corporation?

it requires at least half of it's total sales force to be expatriates- home country nationals working in foreign countries

Which of the following statements about international management is NOT true?

Managers will experience fewer difficulties and risks when performing necessary management functions on an international scale

Which of the following is a characteristic of developed countries?

They are generally located in North America and Europe

Robbie's Robots decided to continue operations at one plant while shutting down another. The decision was justified on the basis of what was best for the total corporation. This is an example of the:

Utilitarian Approach


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