CHAPTER 4: ORGANIZING AND STAFFING THE PROJECT
OFFICE AND TEAM
(Difficulty: E = easy, M = medium, H = hard)
(E) 1. Most people seem to believe that the number one behavioral issue in project
management is multiple-boss reporting.
(E) 2. Which of the following is generally not considered as a personal attribute of a project
manager, but perhaps should be?
A. Honesty and integrity
(E) 3. Project manager selection is usually made by the:
D. Voting by the team members
(E) 4. Which of the following is a job-related characteristic that a PM should possess or may
be expected to possess?
A. Necessity for feasibility studies
(E) 5. The wrong people are often selected as project managers because of:
A. A belief that project management maturity comes with age
(M) 6. It is usually easier to manage one large project on a full-time basis than to manage
multiple small projects at the same time.
D. Personal readings
(M) 8. According to the text, the “next generation” project manager must exhibit skills in all
of the following except:
A. Integration skills
(M) 9. Which of the following is usually not a major concern for the PM during the
organizational staffing process?
D. Type of organizational structure for the project?
(H) 10. Probably the greatest risk to a project manager on a long-term project is to receive the
best employees and then:
(M) 11. In a weak matrix structure, teamwork is not vital for project success because the team
members are under the control of their functional manager.
(H) 12. Which people generally receive no visibility or credit for a job well done?
A. Project sponsors
(M) 13. Strange as it may seem, project managers should encourage conflicts to take place
during recruitment and staffing.
(E) 14. Under which of the following situations can an employee be terminated from the
project?
(M) 15. Which of the following is not usually an option for a PM dealing with an incompetent
worker?
A. On-the-spot appraisals
(M) 16. A typical project office (not to be confused with a project management office)
responsible for the management of a large project includes the project manager and
the:
A. Project sponsor
(H) 17. During the past few years, which project management skill seems to have outpaced all
other skills?
A. Technical skills
(H) 18. Professionally trained people with advanced degrees often prefer:
D. Never to work on project teams
(M) 19. Project team members often feel threatened by the possibility of the cancellation of the
project. In which organizational form is this threat the greatest?
C. Balanced matrix
D. Weak matrix
(M) 20. Some companies assign employees to a project management position as a lateral
D. The employee reports to a functional organization
(M) 21. The person most qualified to assess the overall risk in a work package activity in a
project is the:
A. PM
(H) 22. Once an employee is assigned to a project, the project manager has the authority to
provide team members with work assignments above their pay grade so that they can
get promoted.
(E) 23. Who determines grade level of the employee needed to accomplish a task?
A. Project sponsor
(H) 24. You have just been awarded a contract in which you told the customer that a certain
employee would be assigned full time on the project. Once the project begins, you
discover that the employee is splitting his time between two projects per the
instructions of his functional manager. You should:
(H) 25. After a contract award, a customer requests that some of the senior workers in the
functional areas be assigned to the project team. You priced out the project assuming
the average worker would be assigned and furthermore assumed that the average
worker could do the job effectively. You should discuss this first with: