What does HPOs stand for?

• A) Highly Productive Organizations
• B) High Performnce Organizations
• C) High Potential Organizations
• D) Highly Powerful Organizations

“Technological innovation by competitors” is one of the reasons of organizational failure. This refers to which of the following factors?

• A) Managerial
• B) Cultural
• C) Environmental
• D) Structural

Which of the following leadership style refers to a form of non-leadership in which the leader abdicates his or her responsibility and is high avoidant?

• A) Transactional leadership
• B) Instrumental leadership
• C) Laissez-faire leadership
• D) Transformational leadership

People get into trouble when they do not accept their total selves and try to live up to the demands of others rather than being themselves. This refers to:

• A) Management by exception
• B) Gibbs phenomenon
• C) Gestalt phenomenon
• D) Management by objective

Who believed that effective manager is the one who moves the organization forward in small, logical steps?

• A) Mintzberg
• B) Quinn
• C) Lewin
• D) Lindblom

“The external control of organizations” was published by whom?

• A) Glen and Carroll
• B) Miller and Mintzberg
• C) Pfeffer and Salancik
• D) Hannan and Freeman

Which Model stresses that “The environment determines the distribution and form of organization through selection”.

• A) Lewin’s change management model
• B) Population Ecology Model
• C) Mckinsey 7 S model
• D) None of the above

Which of the following is a unit of analysis of organizational ecological model?

• A) Single organization
• B) Population of organization
• C) Environment of organization
• D) Size of organization

Which of the following defined specie as a legally defined entity?

• A) Weber
• B) Freeman
• C) Quinn
• D) Uldrich

Which of the following assumption was proposed by Astley?

• A) Environment largely affects the large corporations
• B) Organizations are influenced by external forces
• C) Organizations are influenced by internal forces
• D) Environment largely affects small organizations

Bounded rationality is one of the constraints in initiating the change, which is:

• A) Internal to an organization
• B) Exterior to an organization
• C) Inferior to an organization
• D) External to an organization

In what manner rigid hierarchal structures impact the organizational change?

• A) All of the given options
• B) Facilitate the agents to change
• C) Creates communication barrier
• D) Initiate the radical change

Identify leading proponents of organization ecology model.

• A) Mintzberg and Fayol
• B) Weber and Taylor
• C) Schein and Quinn
• D) Hannan and Freeman

The degree of structural inertia experienced by small organizations is:

• A) Extensive
• B) Low
• C) Large
• D) Wide

“Sunk cost” is a source of which of the following?

• A) Variation
• B) Structural inertia
• C) Natural selection
• D) Adaptation

According to Hannan and Freeman, written rules of operations in an organization refer to:

• A) Span of control
• B) Patterns of activity
• C) Formal structure
• D) Normative Order

Which of the following is NOT a basic perspective for interpreting organization action?

• A) Problem Solving
• B) Rule Following
• C) Contagion
• D) Team Work

Entry, exit barriers are considered as:

• A) All of the given options
• B) Internal structural inertia
• C) External structural inertia
• D) Managerial structural inertia

Mortality of organization is referred to:

• A) All of the given options
• B) External forces enforced organization to windup
• C) Situational closure of an organization
• D) Organizational death on owner’s discretion

Which of the following is NOT a possible determinant of vital rates?

• A) Role of Management
• B) Role of Government
• C) Role of competition
• D) Institutional constraints