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1st Long Quiz 4.

Beth Brant, production supervisor at Trustworthy Tools


Mfg., Inc. believes that her employees dislike work, avoid
1. Which of the following is not a function of management? responsibility, and therefore they need to be controlled and
a. Plan directed. Beth is a:
b. Control a. theory X manager.
c. Organize b. theory Y manager.
d. Lead c. realistic manager.
e. Performance d. theory Z manager.
e. theory J manager.
2. Juan Perez is the President of WV Railroad. His
organization faces issues related to the environment, 5. All of these are a part of an organization's task
government regulation, and competition. He will need to environment except _____.
rely primarily on his: a. customers
a. conceptual skills. b. labor markets
b. technical skills. c. competitors
c. human skills. d. employers
d. controlling skills. e. suppliers
e. interpersonal skills.
6. Which of the following is NOT a part of adapting the
3. Time and motion studies that resulted in drastic organization to changes in the environment for coping with
reduction in the time patients spent on the operating table high environmental uncertainty?
were pioneered by _____. a. Boundary-spanning roles
a. Edward Deming b. Advertising/public relations
b. Henry Gantt c. Mergers/joint ventures
c. Max Weber d. Interorganizational partnerships
d. Mary Parker Follett e. All of these are a part of organizational response in adapting
e. Frank Gilbreth the organization to changes in the environment.

7. The Digitec company has recently decided to design


and manufacture a laptop that retails for under $50, in an
effort to make information technology available to people
in places like rural Africa and rural India. This is known
as what type of strategy?
a. Bottom of the pyramid strategy
b. Skimming the barrel strategy
c. Cream of the crop strategy
d. Top of the peak strategy
e. Base price strategy

8. A foreign terrorist kidnaps your firm's marketing VP 12. Some people argue that _____ is the most difficult and
while the VP is in the host country. This is a harsh example most important part of strategic management.
of: a. SWOT analysis
a. economic development. b. strategic formation
b. infrastructure. c. strategic execution
c. political risk. d. strategic analysis
d. international law. e. strategy evaluation
e. social risk.
13. Bobby, a product manager, wants to increase the
9. Sherry is a first-line supervisor at Rooftop Corporation. market share of his product. He is unsure about how to go
She is most concerned with which level of goals? about it, not knowing for sure how costs, price, the
a. Operational goals competition, and the quality of his product will interact to
b. Tactical plans influence market share. Bobby is operating under a
c. Strategic goals condition of _____.
d. Mission statement a. risk
e. Vision b. ambiguity
c. certainty
10. Jerrica, a finance manager at LRV industries, is asked d. uncertainty
by her boss to develop a plan in the event that company e. brainstorming
sales drop by 20 percent or more. This type of plan is
known as _____. 14. Managers are considered to have a(n) _____ style
a. contingency planning when they prefer to consider complex solutions based on
b. financial planning as much data as they can gather.
c. crisis planning a. behavioral
d. consumer protection b. conceptual
e. environmental planning c. directive
d. analytical
11. What type of organizational unit has a unique business e. classical
mission, product line, competitors, and markets relative to
other units in the same corporation? 15. The concept that people have the time and cognitive
a. Product unit ability to process only a limited amount of information on
b. Functional unit which to base decisions is known as:
c. Strategic business unit a. satisficing.
d. Operational unit b. bounded rationality.
e. Business consulting group unit c. classical model of decision making.
d. normative approach.
e. scientific approach.

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