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2024 Final Exam
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Q1
2024
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Chapter 8: Making Decisions
The second step in the decision-making process is identifying a problem.
Q2
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Chapter 21: Controlling Fundamentals
Appeared on finals
2019 Final — Q2.h
2024 Final — Q2
In order to preserve their position power, managers should avoid doing personal favors for subordinates.
Q3
2024
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Chapter 21: Controlling Fundamentals
Managers identify a problem by comparing the current state of affairs to some standard.
Q4
2024
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Chapter 8: Making Decisions
intuitive decision making is systematic, logical, and orderly.
Q5
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Repeated ×4
Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
Appeared on finals
2019 Final — Q2.f
2021 Final — Q21
2024 Final — Q5
2025 Final — Q9
A task group is a formal group outlined in the chain of command on an organization chart.
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Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
Appeared on finals
2021 Final — Q14
2024 Final — Q6
Groupthink is a group decision-making process in which negative feedback on any suggested alternative by any group member is forbidden until all members have presented alternatives that they perceive as valuable.
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Chapter 11: Fundamentals of Organizing
Appeared on finals
2024 Final — Q7
2025 Final — Q12
Henri Fayol recommends that businesses establish multiple guiding authorities when organizing resources.
Q8
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Chapter 11: Fundamentals of Organizing
Appeared on finals
2019 Final — Q2.d
2024 Final — Q8
Bureaucracy can be characterized as a management system with detailed procedures, rules, and a clearly outlined organizational hierarchy with impersonal relationships among organization members.
Q9
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Chapter 11: Fundamentals of Organizing
Appeared on finals
2024 Final — Q9
2025 Final — Q3
Vertical dimensioning is directly related to the concept of the scalar relationship that is, the chain of command.
Q10
2024
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Chapter 11: Fundamentals of Organizing
The matrix structure is contradictory to the principle of unity of command.
Q11
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Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
Appeared on finals
2021 Final — Q20
2024 Final — Q11
The basic elements of the interpersonal communication process are the source, the encoder, and the decoder.
Q12
2024
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Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
The ideal number of committee members for most tasks seems to be from 15 to 20.
Q13
2024
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Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
An interest group is an informal group that forms in organizations because of the personal affiliation members have with one another.
Q14
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Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
Appeared on finals
2019 Final — Q2.e
2024 Final — Q14
Communication is considered a supplementary management skill rather than a fundamental management skill.
Q15
2024
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Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
Good communicators consult with others when planning communications.
Q16
2024
MCQ
Chapter 3: Business Ethics
Which of the following statements is true about corporate social responsibility?
Q17
2024
MCQ
Chapter 7: Principles of Planning
____ and ____ have been called the "Siamese twins of management."
Q18
2024
MCQ
Chapter 8: Making Decisions
Which of the following is true about decisions and decision-making?
Q19
2024
MCQ
Chapter 21: Controlling Fundamentals
The level of activity established to serve as a model for evaluating organizational performance is a(n)
Q20
MCQ
Repeated ×2
Chapter 8: Making Decisions
Appeared on finals
2021 Final — Q30
2024 Final — Q20
This is an example of a(n)
Q21
2024
MCQ
Chapter 8: Making Decisions
Nonprogrammed decisions are
Q22
2024
MCQ
Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
Which of the following is least accurate regarding groups?
Q23
2024
MCQ
Chapter 21: Controlling Fundamentals
____ is the management function through which managers compare present performance to preestablished performance standards.
Q24
2024
MCQ
Chapter 3: Business Ethics
Which of the following arguments provided by Milton Friedman suggests that corporate social responsibility may be unethical?
Q25
2024
MCQ
Chapter 11: Fundamentals of Organizing
____ includes determining tasks and groupings of work. It should not be rigid, but adaptable and flexible to meet challenges as circumstances change.
Q26
2024
MCQ
Chapter 3: Business Ethics
Managers can fulfill their social obligation towards consumers by
Q27
2024
MCQ
Chapter 21: Controlling Fundamentals
As part of the controlling process, you have finished measuring the performance of your team. What must you do next?
Q28
MCQ
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Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
Appeared on finals
2021 Final — Q39
2024 Final — Q28
Which of the following is a communication macrobarrier?
Q29
MCQ
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Appeared on finals
2024 Final — Q29
2025 Final — Q59
Which of the following statements is true for the management function?
Q30
2024
MCQ
Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
Formal groups are commonly divided into ____ and ____
Q31
2024
MCQ
Chapter 11: Fundamentals of Organizing
Which of the following statements is true about organizing?
Q32
MCQ
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Chapter 8: Making Decisions
Appeared on finals
2021 Final — Q31
2024 Final — Q32
Which of the following is a traditional technique for solving a programmed decision?
Q33
2024
MCQ
Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
Encoded information the source intends to share with another person is called a(n)
Q34
2024
MCQ
Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
In which of the following stages of performing social responsibility activities does a manager lead, communicate, motivate, and work with groups to attain the organization's social responsibility objectives?
Q35
2024
MCQ
Chapter 3: Business Ethics
In business, ethics can be defined as
Q36
2024
MCQ
Chapter 3: Business Ethics
____ is a formal statement that acts as a guide for the ethics of how people within a particular organization should act and make decisions.
Q37
2024
MCQ
Chapter 3: Business Ethics
Which of the following actions suggests that an individual is following the golden rule?
Q38
MCQ
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Appeared on finals
2024 Final — Q38
2025 Final — Q18
Name one of the basic concepts for smoothly running an organisation.
Q39
2024
MCQ
Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
An informal group that gains and maintains membership primarily because of a common concern members have about a specific issue is called
Q40
MCQ
Repeated ×2
Chapter 7: Principles of Planning
Appeared on finals
2024 Final — Q40
2025 Final — Q20
At what step of the planning can be processed with the topmost and applicable plan would be implemented?
Q41
2024
MCQ
Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
A work team composed of people from different functional areas of the organization who are all focused on a specified objective is known as a
Q42
MCQ
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Chapter 7: Principles of Planning
Appeared on finals
2024 Final — Q42
2025 Final — Q24
In which pace of the planning process, two sides of a coin of each alternative are examined.
Q43
2024
MCQ
Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
One of the benefits of utilizing committees is that
Q44
2024
MCQ
Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
Which of the following is considered the first step toward effective communication?
Q45
2024
MCQ
Chapter 7: Principles of Planning
It is known as planning.
Q46
2024
MCQ
Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
Which of the following is a purely procedural step that could be taken to increase the probability that a committee will be successful?
Q47
MCQ
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Chapter 7: Principles of Planning
Appeared on finals
2024 Final — Q47
2025 Final — Q27
Thinking for the future output is known as
Q48
2024
MCQ
Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
What is the major purpose of feedback in the communication process?
Q49
2024
MCQ
Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
The person in the interpersonal communication situation who originates and encodes information to be shared with another person is called the
Q50
2024
MCQ
Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
Which of the following is an example of an interest group?
Q51
2024
MCQ
Chapter 7: Principles of Planning
What is the core of making a plan?
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MCQ
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Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
Appeared on finals
2024 Final — Q52
2025 Final — Q58
Which of the following statements about groupthink is true?
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MCQ
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Chapter 7: Principles of Planning
Appeared on finals
2024 Final — Q53
2025 Final — Q43
At what stage of the planning becomes the most feasible plan that can be implemented.
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2024
MCQ
Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
____ is the process of sharing information with other individuals.
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MCQ
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Chapter 7: Principles of Planning
Appeared on finals
2024 Final — Q55
2025 Final — Q51
Planning establishes a ground standard for
Q56
MCQ
Repeated ×2
Chapter 11: Fundamentals of Organizing
Appeared on finals
2021 Final — Q34
2024 Final — Q56
Which of the following is an advantage of division of labor?
Q57
2024
MCQ
Chapter 7: Principles of Planning
Define the term premises?
Q58
2024
MCQ
Chapter 11: Fundamentals of Organizing
Which of the following is one of the three main components of the management system that Weber termed a bureaucracy?
Q59
2024
MCQ
Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
An individual's emotional intelligence is characterized by self-awareness, self-motivation, self-regulation, empathy for others, and
Q60
2024
MCQ
Chapter 18: Groups and Teams
____ is the mode of thinking that group members engage in when the desire for agreement so dominates the group that it overrides the need to realistically appraise alternative problem solutions.
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2024
MCQ
Chapter 1: Introduction
____ resources refer to the machines used during the manufacturing process.
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2024
MCQ
Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
This role performed by Trot can be called
Q63
2024
MCQ
Chapter 15: Influencing and Communication
Organizational communication that does not follow the lines of the organizational chart is specifically called
Q64
2024
MCQ
Chapter 1: Introduction
____ skills are very important to managers at the lower, middle and top levels.
Q65
2024
MCQ
Chapter 21: Controlling Fundamentals
This is a fault in the ____ function of management.
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2024
MCQ
Chapter 1: Introduction
The more resources unused during the production process, the more ____ the manager.