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What is the term for a sub-optimal but acceptable outcome of negotiations between parties? | management | [
"Bargaining",
"Satisficing",
"Accepting",
"Compromising"
] | 1B |
What is a social enterprise concerned with? | management | [
"Profit maximisation",
"Maximising market share",
"Providing public service",
"Running a business to create social benefits"
] | 3D |
Which of the following is not part of Schein's model of the formation of culture? | management | [
"Shared values",
"Pre-conceptions",
"Shared beliefs",
"Norms"
] | 1B |
What is not one of the layers of cultural influence? | management | [
"Social",
"Business",
"Organisational",
"Company"
] | 3D |
How can you describe the thinking and outlook of transformational leaders? | management | [
"Strategic",
"Operational",
"Functional",
"Developmental"
] | 0A |
Which one of the following is not one of Drucker's five guiding principles of management? | management | [
"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 |
What is a paradigm? | management | [
"A theoretical assumption",
"An illustration",
"A theoretical model",
"An example serving as a model"
] | 3D |
What one of the following is not a key management skill in planning? | management | [
"Conceptual skills",
"Analytical skills",
"IT and computing skills",
"Communication skills"
] | 2C |
According to Belbin (1981) an extroverted and enthusiastic person fits with what role? | management | [
"Co-ordinator",
"Shaper",
"Resource investigator",
"Implementer"
] | 2C |
Which is not a recognised form of business continuity planning? | management | [
"Contingency planning",
"Scenario planning",
"Financial planning",
"Building planning"
] | 3D |
Which of these is not part of the recognised challenges for modern managers? | management | [
"Micro-managing the workforce",
"Managing communications",
"Managing change",
"Managing the learning organisation"
] | 0A |
To what does emotional intelligence refer? | management | [
"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 |
Which is not a characteristic of corporate social responsibility? | management | [
"Product safety",
"Consumer rights",
"Environmental policies",
"Price-fixing"
] | 3D |
As what is ensuring that one individual does not carry the burden of a whole work task referred to? | management | [
"Work specialisation",
"Work design",
"Work schedule",
"Work shift"
] | 0A |
What is the term for the act of getting individuals to behave in ways that are acceptable to a group? | management | [
"Indoctrination",
"Brainwashing",
"Propaganda",
"Socialisation"
] | 3D |
When does an acquisition take place? | management | [
"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 |
What is the richest form of information? | management | [
"Telephone",
"Face-to-face",
"E-mail",
"Video conference"
] | 1B |
What is the guiding principle behind New Public Management? | management | [
"Profit maximisation",
"Introducing private sector business principles into the public sector",
"Replacing public management with private sector management",
"Restructuring public organisations"
] | 1B |
Which one of the following political leaders could not be termed a 'transformational' leader? | management | [
"Margaret Thatcher",
"Mikhail Gorbachov",
"Nelson Mandela",
"Bill Clinton"
] | 3D |
What is a succession plan? | management | [
"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 the definition of a scenario in scenario planning? | management | [
"An imagined sequence of future events",
"An unpredictable event",
"A planned for event",
"An unplanned for event"
] | 0A |
What assumption is the garbage can model of decision making based on? | management | [
"Limited knowledge and great insight",
"Limited knowledge but high level of experience",
"Limited knowledge and uncertainty",
"Limited knowledge and high risk"
] | 2C |
By which principle is utilitarianism defined? | management | [
"Equality for everyone",
"Maximisation of outcomes for individuals",
"The best outcome for the majority of people",
"The least worst outcome for everybody"
] | 2C |
What type of organisational culture is most likely to deliver stability and efficiency? | management | [
"Task culture",
"Role culture",
"Power culture",
"People culture"
] | 1B |
What are characteristics of a programmed decision? | management | [
"Complex and risky",
"Uncertain and non-routine",
"Low risk and certain",
"Routine and non-complex"
] | 3D |
What is a strategic alliance? | management | [
"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 are group norms? | management | [
"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 |
Which of the following is not a recognised type of plan? | management | [
"Business",
"Succession",
"Ad hoc",
"Financial"
] | 2C |
As what are key factors that reflect the situation of an organisation referred to? | management | [
"Administrations",
"Processes",
"Activities",
"Contingencies"
] | 3D |
What does PEST stand for? | management | [
"Political, environmental, strategic, testing",
"Political, environmental, strategic, technological",
"Political, economic, strategic, technological",
"Political, economic, social, technological"
] | 3D |
Which writer was concerned with the reaction of workers to key characteristics of bureaucracies? | management | [
"Merton",
"Weber",
"Gouldner",
"Mayo"
] | 2C |
What is the optimal span of control? | management | [
"2",
"5",
"7",
"None of the above"
] | 3D |
What one of these is not a recognised type of authority? | management | [
"Executive",
"Functional",
"Line management",
"Supplier"
] | 3D |
Which one of the following is not a characteristic of a team? | management | [
"Minimal and formal knowledge sharing",
"Collective output",
"Individual and collective responsibility",
"Fluid dimension to roles and tasks"
] | 0A |
What is the overriding philosophy underpinning the strategic direction of an organisation? | management | [
"Vision statement",
"Mission statement",
"Strategy statement",
"Business statement"
] | 1B |
What is another name for contingency planning? | management | [
"Synergy planning",
"Ad hoc planning",
"Business level planning",
"Scenario planning"
] | 3D |
What is the term for power derived from status or position in an organisation? | management | [
"Referent",
"Expert",
"Reward",
"Legitimate"
] | 3D |
What is a virtual organisation? | management | [
"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 technolo... | 0A |
What is the guiding principle of scientific management? | management | [
"Experimentation",
"Fluid working relationships",
"Freedom of association",
"One best way to do a job"
] | 3D |
What is the term Tuckman uses for reaching consensus as a group? | management | [
"Storming",
"Performing",
"Forming",
"Norming"
] | 3D |
What is not a purpose of an organisational structure? | management | [
"To coordinate people and resources",
"To organise lines of communication",
"To formalise authority",
"To limit workers' rights"
] | 3D |
What is the term for organisational development through a formally designed organisational structure? | management | [
"Organic",
"Mechanistic",
"Formal",
"Structured"
] | 1B |
Which 18th century writer produced a famous book called 'The Wealth of Nations'? | management | [
"Frederick Taylor",
"Henry Mintzberg",
"Adam Smith",
"Dr Samuel Johnson"
] | 2C |
Which one of these characteristics is most commonly associated with the 'rational goal' model of management? | management | [
"Worker welfare",
"Health and safety",
"Interpersonal relationships",
"Productivity"
] | 3D |
Who of the following is the industrial philanthropist? | management | [
"Frederick Taylor",
"Seebohm Rowntree",
"Henry Ford",
"Max Weber"
] | 1B |
How does lateral communication in an organisation occur? | management | [
"Information passes upwards.",
"Information passes downwards.",
"Information is a two-way process.",
"Information passes between different departments and functions."
] | 3D |
What is not a component of an agile organisation? | management | [
"Market focus and position",
"Human resources: multi-skilling",
"Organisational structure",
"Project-based culture"
] | 3D |
What is the term for an autonomous business entity within an overall corporate enterprise which is set apart from other areas of the business? | management | [
"Subsidiary",
"Strategic partnership",
"Strategic alliance",
"Strategic business unit"
] | 3D |
What is a whistleblower? | management | [
"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 |
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