CHAPTER 4: ORGANIZING AND STAFFING THE PROJECT OFFICE
AND TEAM
(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 not a personal attribute of a project manager?
(E) 3. Project manager selection is usually made by the:
(E) 4. Which of the following is a job-related characteristic that a PM should possess or may
be expected to possess?
(E) 5. The wrong people are often selected as project managers because of:
(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.
(M) 7. Which of the following is often regarded as the best way to train project managers?
(M) 8. According to the text, the “next generation” project manager must exhibit skills in all
of the following except:
(M) 9. Which of the following is usually not a major concern for the PM during the
organizational staffing process?
(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.
(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 should 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?
(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:
(H) 17. During the past few years, which project management skill seems to have outpaced all
other skills?
(H) 18. Professionally-trained people with advanced degrees often prefer:
(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?
(M) 20. Some companies assign employees to a project management position as a lateral
transfer move without a salary increase because:
(M) 21. The person most qualified to assess the overall risk in a work package activity in a
project is the:
(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?
(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 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: