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Third Quiz of MGt503 16-12-2011

- Strategic plans cover broader goals for an organization including formulation of goals, maximizing profits, achieving goals, minimizing employees, and efficient production methods. - Operational plans define ways to achieve strategic goals. - Controlling involves comparing actual performance to goals to assess implementation of strategy.

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Third Quiz of MGt503 16-12-2011

- Strategic plans cover broader goals for an organization including formulation of goals, maximizing profits, achieving goals, minimizing employees, and efficient production methods. - Operational plans define ways to achieve strategic goals. - Controlling involves comparing actual performance to goals to assess implementation of strategy.

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Strategic plans cover a broader view of the organization and include the

formulation of goals, whereas operational plans define way to:


o Maximize the organizations Profits
o Achieve the goals
o Minimize the number of employees
o Provide the most efficient methods of production
Which of the following approach focuses on a set of interrelated and interdependent
parts arranged in a manner that produces a unified whole?
Select correct option:
Each subordinate should report to one and only one superior is called:
Select correct option:
Authority
Unity of command
Unity of direction
Order
Planning is often called the primary management function because it:
Select correct option:
Offers some basis for future decision making
Creates the vision for the organizational members
Establishes the basis for all the other functions
Humans inhale oxygen out of the environment and exhale carbon dioxide into the
environment. This is an example of
Select correct option:
Close system
Open system
Hybrid system
None of above
Amna has been given goals related to the rollout and sales of her department. Her
success at implementing the strategy will be assessed by comparing actual
performance against the goals. This comparison is known as:
Select correct option:
Planning
Organizing
Implementing
Controlling

ICI has been leader in implementing waste reduction policy with its pollution
prevention program. This approach is towards
Select correct option:
Global warming
Greening of Management
Depletion of natural resources
None of above
An approach to goal setting in which top management defined organizational goals
and pass down to each succeeding level of organization is called
Select correct option:
Contingency planning
Top-down approach
Inclusive Approach
Formal Planning
The management function that defines goals and establishes strategies to achieve
them is called:
Select correct option:
Planning
Organizing
Leading
Controlling
Delphi method is a structured approach to gain opinions from panel of experts on
an issue
In some countries, such as Venezuela, titles, rank, and status carry a lot of weight. These
countries have a large:
In some countries, such as Venezuela, titles, rank, and status carry a lot of weight.
These countries have a large:
Select correct option:
Power distance
Uncertainty avoidance
Short- versus long-term orientation
Individualism versus collectivism

Pakistan Federal government has passed disabilities act of 2005 to protect rights of
disable persons and to give them flexibility in job. This comes under which of the
following environmental sub context
Select correct option:
Economic
Socio cultural
Political/legal
Technological
Pakistan Federal government has passed disabilities act of 2005 to protect rights of
disable persons and to give them flexibility in job.
What is the best term to describe the process of attempting to influence other people
to attain the organization's objectives?
Select correct option:
Planning
Organizing
Leading
Controlling
In a football team specific positions are played by different players to utilize and
maximize their individual skills is called
Select correct option:
Job description
Job specification
Departmentalization
Job Specialization
Cultivating a learning culture where organizational members systematically gather
knowledge and share it with others in the organization so as to achieve better
performance is called:
Select correct option:
Knowledge management
Technical management
Software management
Systems management
If a company provides job-share programs, builds a day-care facility, and only uses
recycled paper, it could be said to be:
Select correct option:
Fulfilling its social obligation
Socially aware
Socially responsive

Socially image conscious


Non-programmed decisions are typically made under a condition of which of the
following?
Select correct option:
Certainty
Low levels of risk
Uncertainty
Reliability
In order to communicate, motivate and delegate a manager must have:
Select correct option:
Political skills
Conceptual skills
Technical skills
Interpersonal skills
A guest at a hotel complains that the room hasnt been thoroughly vacuumed. This
is an event that occurs occasionally and can be handled with a standardized, routine
response. This would be a:
Select correct option:
A programmed decision
Ill-structured decisions
Novel decisions
Non-programmed decisions
Which of the following is a cultural dimension in which people expect others in their
group to look after them and protect them when they are in trouble?
The construction of a single pyramid occupied more than -------------- workers for 20
years
Which of the following statement best describes Social Screening?
An approach that has contributed directly in decision making, scheduling, quality control
is called
An approach that has contributed directly in decision making, scheduling, quality control
is called
Which of the given function plays an essential role in assuring the exact performance
towards goal attainment?
The belief that businesses should be responsible because such actions are right for their
own sake is known as which argument for social responsibility?

Organizations that are good at developing relevant capabilities to respond to a changing


environment are known as:
Following are different ways to improve forecasting effectiveness except
If a company provides job-share programs, builds a day-care facility, and only uses
recycled paper, it could be said to be:
A form of business exchange in which two or more than two parties interact
electronically is called
The breakdown of jobs into narrow and repetitive tasks is called
CEO of Siemens presents $10000 scholarships to the winners of Math, Physics and
Computer Science in a high school. He is acting the role of:
The emerging trend of home shopping in developed countries is due to which of the
following environmental condition
Which one of the following is an example of organization?
Skills such as engineering, accounting, computer and manufacturing are most important
for which level of management
Group decisions provide _____ information as compared to individual ones.
Which of the following statement best describes Social responsiveness? .
Firms capacity to adapt changing social condition
Applying social criteria to investment decisions
Firms obligation to meet its economic & legal responsibilities
Firms obligation pursue long term goals that are good for society
4th
For which managers conceptual skills and technical skills are required in equal
percentage
First line managers
Middle managers
Top managers
none
middle
Which of the following plans have the broadest organizational focus and the longest time
frame?
Tactical
Strategic
Directional
Operational
2
Which of the following types of plans is highly interdependent and must take into
account the resources and capabilities of the entire organization and its external
environments?
Operational plans

Strategic plans
Tactical plans
Budgetary plans
Standard charter when offered new feature of online funds transfer. It represents
what factor to the other Pakistans banks in its specific environment?
Customers
Suppliers
Competitors
Public pressure groups
In a call center supervisor coordinates with manager on work shifts of subordinates
on daily basis. This role is described as
Leader
Negotiator
Resource allocator
All of the following are elements of management process EXCEPT
Planning
Leading
Pricing
3
Controlling
Reading of a business journal, publication on regular basis to gather information for
upcoming business trends, this role is called
Disseminator
Liaison
Spokesperson
Monitor
Group decisions provide _____ information as compared to individual ones.
Current
Complete
Consistent
complete
vusolution mey complete
A state legislative plan that calls for a 2.45 percent increase in tobacco sales tax for
the next 2 years would be considered which of the following type of plan?
Tactical
Operational
Specific
Directional

In XYZ company Umar has motivated staff to attend training sessions to adapt new
technological changes. Umar has performed the role as a --------Select correct option:
Disturbance handler
Leader
Liaison
Entrepreneur
Humans inhale oxygen out of the environment and exhale carbon dioxide into the
environment. This is an example of
Select correct option:
Close system
Open system
Hybrid system
None of above
Humans inhale oxygen out of the environment and exhale carbon dioxide into the
environment. This is an example of
Select correct option:
Close system
Open system
Hybrid system
None of above
Which factor has been the most rapidly changing component in an organizations
general environment in the past quarter-century?
Select correct option:
Global
Economic
Social
Technological

Which of the following is noted for the development of time motion studies that
utilized stopwatches and cameras to analyze workplace efficiencies?
Select correct option:
Frederick Taylor
Henri Fayol
Henry Gnatt
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth
The purpose to built the China Wall was
Select correct option:
To make their territories clear
To defend their own area
To protect the Silk Road
All of Above
Which of the following factor is considered to be the part of internal environment of
an organization?
Select correct option:
Government
Competitors
Products
Markets
When a firm advertises that it only uses recycled paper products, it is called:
Select correct option:
Meeting its social obligation
Meeting social responsibilities
Being socially responsive
Paying attention to the bottom line
Which of the following is a process through which managers take actions to effect
the actions?
Select correct option:
Problem solving
Decision making
Decision taking
Job analysis

When a company meets pollution control standards established by federal


government it could be said to be:
Select correct option:
Social obligation
Social Screening
Socially responsibility
Social responsiveness
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Field of Management focused on designing & implementing computer-based
information systems for use by management is called
Select correct option:
Operations Research
Operations Management
Total Quality Management
Management information system
Planning is often called the primary management function because it:
Select correct option:
Offers some basis for future decision making
Creates the vision for the organizational members
Establishes the basis for all the other functions
Sets the tone for the organizational culture
A supervisor is teaching an employee to use a piece of equipment safely. Which of
the following skill is most important for supervisorr?
Select correct option:
Conceptual skills
Human skills
Strategic skills
Technical skills
__________, identifies the order of activities to be performed in order to achieve a
particular goal.
Budgeting
Linear programming
Break-even analysis
Scheduling

Which of the following is NOT a valid assumption about rationality?


Select correct option:
The problem is clear and unambiguous
A single well-defined goal is to be achieved
Preferences are clear
Preferences are constantly changing
The belief that businesses should be responsible because such actions are right for
their own sake is known as which argument for social responsibility?
In XYZ company employees satisfaction is decreasing due to some technological
changes in business processes. HR managers has conduct sessions with staff
motivate them and to give them confidence. Manager has perform the function of
Someone who works with and through other people by coordinating their work
activities in order to accomplish organizational goals is called:
Select correct option:

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