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MGT 504 QUIZ 4
Solved by DR ABDUL SABOOR
mb120400120@vu.edu.pk
Special thanks to Ulfat Abbas Jafery & MSBA-124
Also Thankful TO MR Usman Alvi
Question # 1 of 30 ( Start time: 11:16:12 AM ) Total Marks: 1
In which type of organizational structure, the product managers and

functional managers have equal authority within the organization, and
employees report to both of them.
Functional structure
Divisional structure
Matrix structure
Hybrid Structure
Which one of the following describes the number of employees working

under a manager?
Formalization
Authority
Span of control page 8
Bureaucracy
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In which type of organizational structure, a company can become truly

global with the maximum use of IT in only a single building?
Matrix structure
Network structure
Divisional structure
Global companies operate in truly global fashion, and the entire world is
their marketplace. Organization structure at this stage can be extremely
complex and often evolves into an international matrix or transnational
model.
Engineering department of a large multinational organization is dealing with

multiple tasks which are thoroughly monitored. What type of departmental
technology is being used in that department?
Engineering technology page 60
Non routine technology
Routine technology
Craft technology
Which one of the following becomes a creative factor in production?
Profit
Competitor
Investment
Human Resource

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Which of the following represents the organization’s reason for existence?
Mission
Goal
Strategy
Task
Which one of the following may be the best description for a learning
organization?
An organization where lot of training takes place not sure
An organization where employees are aligned with business strategy
An organization which develops a culture of constant learning from the past

experiences
None of the above
Which one of the following is true for a mechanistic structure in the

organization?
It encourages lesser innovation compared to organic structure
It encourages more innovation compared to organic structure
There is no difference in the level of innovation for both the structures
None of the above
Social responsibilities are driven by all of the following EXCEPT:
External stakeholders

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Customers
Investors
Employees
Managerial ethics and social responsibility are influenced by a variety of

external stakeholders, groups outside the organization that have a stake in
the organization’s performance
General Electric recently adopted a division structure for having a structural

simplicity and flexibility like a small company while having the resource and
reach as earlier like as a large company. Which one of the following
approach is it using?
Large Size Company
Bio Company / Small Company Hybrid page 80
Small Size Company
None of the above
Which of the following is characterized by strategic focus on the external

environment through flexibility and change to meet customer needs?
Bureaucratic culture
Clan culture
Mission culture
Entrepreneurial culture page 88
The adaptability / entrepreneurial culture is characterized by strategic focus

on the external environment.
At what level of moral development, people develop an internal set of

standards comprised of self chosen ethical principles that are more

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important to their decisions than external expectations and even more than
law if necessary.
Low level of moral development
Intermediate level of development
Highest level of moral development
None of the above
At the highest level of moral development are people who develop an

internal set of standards. These are self – chosen ethical principles that are
more important.
Who proposed division of labor?
Jean Woodwards
F W Taylor
Henri Fayol
Adam Smith
Which one of the following is an example external application of information

technology while using IT as a strategic weapon?
Networking,
Intranet
Enterprises resource planning (ERP)
Extranets
Extranets, e-commerce, and network structures are external application,

page 69

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What is the effect on the support group ratio when the size of the
organization increases?
Support group ratio declines
Support group ratio increases
It has no effect
None of the above
As organization increase in size, the administrative ratio declines and the

ratios for other support groups increase.
NTMA stands for which of the following?
Neutral Technical and Manufacturing Association
National Tooling and Machining Association page 42
National Textile and Manufacturing Association
Nottingham Training and Matching Association
CEO of a large industry wants consensus of all the managers of his different
departments on a critical organizational level decision. Which one of the
following decision models will be suitable for him?
Carnegie Model
Garbage Can Model
Incremental decision process model
None of the given options

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Which of the following describes an organization’s vision, its shared values

and beliefs, and its reasons for being?
Mission page 14
Goal
Strategy
Task
Boundary – spanning roles link and coordinate an organization with key

elements in which one of the following.
External environment
Internal environment
Consumers
Competitors
According the population Ecology view, which factor determines about the
survival and failure of organizations?
Changing environment page 45
Stable environment
Low uncertainty environment
Low – moderate uncertainty environment
Which of the following may be the technique for the implementation of

change in the organization?
Identifying a true need for change

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Getting top management support
Developing plan for overcoming resistance
All of the given options
The best way to understand the external environment with reference to an

individual organization is to understand which one of the following factors,
Analysis of its domain within external sectors
Analyzing of its past success in its marketing effort
Analyzing of its competitive advantage
Analyzing of its financial returns in the recent years
The environment of an organization can be understood by analyzing its

domain within external sectors. Domain defines the organization’s niche
and defines those external sectors with which the organization will interact
to accomplish its goals.
Which one of the following structures offers flexibility to the organization in

terms of having structural variation and is best suited for the organization
in the rapidly changing environment?
Geographic structure
Hybrid structure
Matrix structure
What type of decision is made in routine, repetitive and well structured

situations with predetermined decision rules?
Programmed decision

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Non-programmed decisions
Contingency decisions
None of the above
Which one of the following types of organizational structure is more suitable

for innovation in the organization?
Mechanistic
Organic
Autocratic
None of the above
Which one of the following statements represents the meaning of random

change?
A change process that takes place slowly and step by step
A change that takes take place at once
A change that never takes place
None of the above
The manager of an organization wants to use the strategy of “forcing and

coercion” for managing resistance to change in the organization from
employees. Which one of the following is the right option under this
strategy?
Threat of termination to the employees
Reward for accepting change
A promotion for accepting change

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None of the above
Forcing and Coercion. As a last resort, mangers may overcome resistance by

threatening employees with loss of jobs or promotion or by firing or
transferring them.
Which one of the following will be true for a manufacturing firm?
It will be labour and knowledge intensive
It will be capital intensive page 57
None of them
Both of them
The sum of information, experience, understanding, relationships,

processes, innovation, and discoveries of a company is known as,
Financial capital
Initial capital
Intellectual capital
Service capital
Which one of the following means the use of huge databases that combine
all of a company’s data which allows users to access the data directly,
create reports and to obtain response to what - if questions.
Data warehousing page 66
Data cleaning
Data processing
Data structuring

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Question # 1 of 30 ( Start time: 04:42:40 PM ) Total Marks: 1
What is measured as the amount of resources used to produce a unit output?
Select correct option:
Efficiency page 18
Effectiveness
Legitimacy
Hierarchy
What is the effectiveness criterion for Creditors?
Financial return
Worker satisfaction
Quality of goods and services
Creditworthiness page 21
Contingency approaches to measuring effectiveness focus on which one of the

following,

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Different parts of the organization page 18
Production
Marketing
Finance
College teaching is an example of which type of departmental technology?
Engineering technology
Non routine technology
Routine technology
Craft technology
The role of employees working in the buffer department is,
To cope with the decline of sales
To cope with the financial loss
To cope with the uncertain environment
To cope with the marketing dilemmas

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MSBA_124: The traditional approach to coping with environmental uncertainty was

to establish buffer departments. The
buffering role is to absorb uncertainty from the environment. The technical core
performs the primary production
When the environmental domain of an organization keeps on changing over a period

of time then it is called as,
Simple environment
Complex environment
Stable environment
Unstable environment
Which one of the following is not a part of horizontal linkages model?
Specialization
Boundary Spanning
Horizontal Linkages
Total Quality Management

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In an organization, the managers are more concerned with their own interests and
this thing is institutionalized in its culture. Which type of the culture they are
promoting?
Healthy and strong culture
Unhealthy and strong culture page 91
Healthy and weak culture
Unhealthy and week culture
In which one of the following, many diverse external environmental elements

interact and influence the heterogeneous internal factors of the organization.
Simple environment
Complex environment page 34
Stable environment
Unstable environment

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Which of the following promotes flexibility and rapid response to changes in

customer needs?
Hybrid structure
Vertical Structure
Horizontal Structure page 31
None of the above
Operations management will be applicable to
Mostly to the service sector
To services exclusively
Mostly to the manufacturing sector
Both to the manufacturing and service sectors
Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing,

designing, and controlling the process of production and redesigning business
operations in the production of goods and/or services

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A large size company working throughout Europe wants to adopt a smaller

company’s management approach in some countries as part it strategy. Which one
of the following will be the most suited organizational size dimension for it?
Large Size Company
Bio Company / Small Company Hybrid
Small Size Company
None of the above
Which of the following means that what is taken out of the environmental system for
food, shelter, clothing, energy, and other human uses is restored to the system in
waste that can be reused?
Environmental balance
Environmental natural cycle
Environmental hazard
Environmental sustainability
MSBA_124: Environmental sustainability meaning that what is taken out of the
environmental system for food, shelter, clothing, energy, and other human uses is
restored to the system in waste

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that can be reused
At what level of moral development, people develop an internal set of standards

comprised of self chosen ethical principles that are more important to their decisions
than external expectations and even more than law if necessary.
Low level of moral development
Intermediate level of development
Highest level of moral development
None of the above
MSBA_124: At the highest level of moral development are people who develop an
internal
set of standards. These are self – chosen ethical principles that are more important
to decision than external
expectations
Which of the following is the degree to which organizational tasks are subdivided into
separate job?
Centralization
Professionalism
Hierarchy of authority
Specialization page10

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The most powerful pre 20th century influence in the field of management was,
Time and motion studies
The industrial revolution
Scientific management.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of need theory
What has been the impact of IT on the organizational size in the sense of having
number of employees?
Organizational size has reduced
Organization size has increased
Organizational size had no impact
None of the above

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Which of the following strategy is concerned with environmental threats and

opportunities in an ad hoc fashion?
Prospector
Defender
Reactor
Analyzer
MSBA_124: Reactor: The reactor strategy is not really a strategy at all. Rather,
reactors respond to environmental threats and
opportunities in an ad hoc fashion.
Ulfat Jafery: reactor
The first and most influential study of manufacturing technology was conducted by
which one of the following.
Joan Woodward
Frederick Taylor
Abraham Maslow
Stephen P Robbins
MSBA_124: 1
Ulfat Jafery: 1

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A dramatic narrative of imagined events in an organization is called as,
Artifact
Myth
Ritual
Stories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology
Which one of the following lies higher in the hierarchy?
Administrative core page 107
Technical core
Both have same hierarchy level
None of the above
Ulfat Jafery: 1
Which of the following represents the organization’s reason for existence?

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Mission
Goal
Strategy
Task
An organization possesses a culture which is adaptive and flexible enough to cope

with external changing environment. Managers have successfully developed such
values like risk taking and flexibility which is now the part of organizational culture.
Which type of culture they have?
Healthy and strong culture me not sure may be 3 please check it
Unhealthy and strong culture
Healthy and weak culture
Unhealthy and week culture
What is the name of American management guru, who declared that “the fortune
500 is over” in early 1990’s?

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John Wohler
Adam Smith
Peter Drucker
Joan Woodward
MSBA_124: Peter Drucker declared that “the fortune 500 is over”;
Which one of the following types of culture is characterized by emphasis on a clear

vision of the organization’s purpose and on the achievement of goals such as sales
growth, profitability or market share to help achieve the purpose?
The Clan Culture
The Mission Culture
The Adaptability Culture
The Bureaucratic Culture
MSBA_124: The mission culture is characterized by emphasis on a clear vision of
the organization’s purpose and on the achievement of goals, such as sales growth,
profitability, or market share, to
help achieve the purpose.

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What is the amount of resources used to produce a unit of output?
Organization effectiveness
Organizational efficiency
Organizational behaviour
Organizational hierarchy
Which one of the following requires the use of standardized methods of work
processing and finding one best way for doing a job?
Scientific management
Time and motion studies
Administration principles
Hawthorne studies
Which one of the following contingency effectiveness approaches states that the
effectiveness of an organization is its ability to obtain useful and scarce resource and
to manage them?

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Goal Approach
Resource-Based Approach
Internal Process Approach
Stakeholder Approach
Which of the following is the problem associated with strong and stable corporate
culture?
It creates hurdles in changing with turbulent environment
It can clash with sub cultures
It will make organization “learning organization” with variety in culture
None of the given option is true
Imran is a general manager in a restaurant. According to the nature of the business,

which one of the following is the most important resource of his organization?
Capital
Inventory
Human resource
Building

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MGT 504 QUIZ 4

Solved by DR ABDUL SABOOR

Special thanks to Ulfat Abbas Jafery & MSBA-124

Also Thankful TO MR Usman Alvi

Question # 1 of 30 ( Start time: 11:16:12 AM ) Total Marks: 1

In which type of organizational structure, the product managers and

Question # 2 of 30 ( Start time: 11:16:56 AM ) Total Marks: 1

Which one of the following describes the number of employees working

Span of control page 8

Question # 3 of 30 ( Start time: 11:17:27 AM ) Total Marks: 1

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In which type of organizational structure, a company can become truly

Question # 4 of 30 ( Start time: 11:18:47 AM ) Total Marks: 1

Engineering department of a large multinational organization is dealing with

Engineering technology page 60

Non routine technology

Question # 5 of 30 ( Start time: 11:19:57 AM ) Total Marks: 1

Which one of the following becomes a creative factor in production?

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Question # 6 of 30 ( Start time: 11:21:00 AM ) Total Marks: 1

Which of the following represents the organization’s reason for existence?

Question # 7 of 30 ( Start time: 11:21:28 AM ) Total Marks: 1

An organization where lot of training takes place not sure

An organization where employees are aligned with business strategy

An organization which develops a culture of constant learning from the past

None of the above

Question # 8 of 30 ( Start time: 11:22:34 AM ) Total Marks: 1

Which one of the following is true for a mechanistic structure in the

It encourages lesser innovation compared to organic structure

It encourages more innovation compared to organic structure

There is no difference in the level of innovation for both the structures

None of the above

Question # 9 of 30 ( Start time: 11:22:56 AM ) Total Marks: 1

Social responsibilities are driven by all of the following EXCEPT:

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Managerial ethics and social responsibility are influenced by a variety of

Question # 10 of 30 ( Start time: 11:24:19 AM ) Total Marks: 1

General Electric recently adopted a division structure for having a structural

Large Size Company

Bio Company / Small Company Hybrid page 80

Small Size Company

None of the above

Question # 11 of 30 ( Start time: 11:25:34 AM ) Total Marks: 1

Which of the following is characterized by strategic focus on the external

Entrepreneurial culture page 88

The adaptability / entrepreneurial culture is characterized by strategic focus

Question # 12 of 30 ( Start time: 11:26:27 AM ) Total Marks: 1

At what level of moral development, people develop an internal set of

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Low level of moral development

Intermediate level of development

Highest level of moral development

None of the above

At the highest level of moral development are people who develop an

Question # 13 of 30 ( Start time: 11:27:38 AM ) Total Marks: 1

Who proposed division of labor?

Question # 14 of 30 ( Start time: 11:31:52 AM ) Total Marks: 1

Which one of the following is an example external application of information