In general, the closer subordinates are physically, the more of them managers can
supervise effectively.
As a general rule, the more physically separated the organization’s customers are, the
more viable a significant amount of centralization is.
Organizational myths are commonly discouraged as they tend to distort the real picture
of an organization.
Reverse discrimination is the term used to describe inequities affecting members of the
minority group as an outcome of programs designed to assist the majority group.
As used in management-related discussions, a group is simply a gathering of people.
According to the GE Multifactor Portfolio Matrix, businesses falling in cells that form a
diagonal from lower left to upper right are the strongest and the ones the company
should invest in and help to grow.
Managers only perform environmental analysis to help them understand what is
happening outside their organization.
Argyris’ continuum of needs is primarily a subjective explanation of human needs.
Bureaucracy can be characterized as a management system with detailed procedures,
rules, and a clearly outlined organizational hierarchy with impersonal relationships
among organization members.
Messages tend to become more distorted as the length of the series increases in serial
transmission.
In order to be classified as a domestic corporation, a corporation must acquire all
resources and sell all products within one country.
A company’s informal structure is represented primarily by the organizational chart.
________ ideas are ideas that focus on invention that develops new offerings, or
enhances existing offerings by the organization.
A) Technology
B) Process
C) Management
D) Product
E) Infrastructure
Situational theories of leadership, except for Fiedler’s theory, are all based upon the
concept of ________.
A) leader flexibility
B) follower readiness
C) skills and abilities of managers
D) specific follower skills
E) leader-member relationships
Which of the following leadership facets is highlighted in the Tannenbaum and Schmidt
Leadership Continuum?
A) employee motivation
B) communication
C) workforce controlling
D) decision making
E) employee training
Which of the following is an advantage of lectures as a training method?
A) Lectures are extremely helpful in promoting attitudinal and behavioral changes
among trainees.
B) Lectures provide ample opportunity to check on whether trainees really understand
the training material.
C) Lectures allow instructors to expose trainees to a maximum amount of information
within a given time period.
D) Lectures are ideal training methods for handling the wide diversity of ability,
attitude, and interest that prevails among trainees.
E) Lectures facilitate opportunities for practice, reinforcement, knowledge of results,
and overlearning.
A system created as part of the overall management system is a(n) ________.
A) offshoot
B) microsystem
C) spinoff
D) subsystem
E) outgrowth
Which of the following is a conclusion derived from the OSU studies on leadership?
A) Individual traits are crucial to leadership effectiveness.
B) Employee-centered leaders are more effective than job-centered leaders.
C) Leaders exhibit structure behavior and consideration behavior.
D) Leadership styles should be linked with various situations.
E) Followers progress from immaturity to maturity in their life cycle.
RX Corporation has four strategic business units (A, B, C, D). During a review
meeting, a member of the company’s board of directors suggests that SBU A, which is
in the textile industry, should be sold off. Which of the following, if true, would
strengthen the argument to eliminate SBU A from the company’s portfolio?
A) SBU A requires very little financial investment.
B) The textile industry is in the maturity stage of the market.
C) SBU A was a first mover in its market.
D) The textile industry has very high barriers to exit.
E) SBU A recently underwent a rebranding exercise.
Which of the following components of creativity determines if an individual will
actually be creative?
A) experience
B) motivation
C) expertise
D) logic
E) reasoning
Which of the following functions does a position replacement form perform?
A) provides information about the organizational history of an individual
B) compares the merits of two individuals being considered for a position
C) determines who might be eligible to fill a vacant position
D) assesses the potential of an employee in the organization
E) advertises a vacant position in the organization and requests applications from
qualified candidates
Which of the following is a criticism of Graicuna’s work in span of management?
A) He failed to emphasize the importance of span of management on the organization.
B) He does not recognize the principle of unity of command.
C) He does not consider the number of actual relationships among superiors and
subordinates.
D) He fails to specify what will happen if the number of subordinates increases or
decreases.
E) He takes into account managers’ relationships outside the organization.
A collection of individuals whose common work experiences result in the development
of a system of interpersonal relationships that extend beyond those established by
management is a/an ________.
A) work team
B) task group
C) informal group
D) command group
E) committee
Strategic planning and tactical planning are directly related to which dimension of
planning?
A) time
B) level
C) scope
D) repetitiveness
E) flexibility
When two or more employees are uncertain as to who is responsible for a task, which of
the following represents the most desirable outcome in terms of product quality?
A) Employees spend valuable time negotiating each aspect of the job.
B) Both the employees perform the job.
C) One of the two employees performs the job.
D) Neither employee performs the job.
E) The job is reassigned to a different employee.
Bay Industries has a small-scale shoe manufacturing plant which has experienced a
high number of product defects for the past several months. The quality control team
studies the problem and then recommends that the production manager change one of
the company’s suppliers of leather. Identify the role performed by the staff personnel in
this situation.
A) advisory
B) service
C) control
D) latent
E) administrative