Management Mid-term in class questions
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
