MCQ Bank
When an organization introduces step by step small routine changes then it is called:
- A) Reactive change
- B) Incremental change
- C) Radical change
- D) Anticipatory change
A new committee within your university has been established that brings together specialists from all different departments to develop a new interdisciplinary program. The structure probably best meets the definition of which of the following?
- A) Expert structure
- B) Virtual structure
- C) Matrix structure
- D) Boundary less structure
A process that collects and illustrates aspects of job and identifies the skills required to perform the job is:
- A) Job Analysis
- B) Job Description
- C) Job Design
- D) Job Evaluation
The degree to which certain tasks are subdivided in separate jobs in an organization is referred as:
- A) Centralization
- B) Departmentalization
- C) Formalization
- D) Work Specialization
By keeping the span of control to 5 or 6 employees, which of the following is an advantage?
- A) It is expensive and complicated
- B) Upper management is more available and in-touch
- C) Vertical communication is more complex
- D) Decision making is slowed down
The change which is unforeseen and a result of an unanticipated event or a response to some outside influence, refers to:
- A) Strategic change
- B) Evolutionary change
- C) Planned change
- D) Unplanned change
Which of the following term can be used to describe the joining of PICIC Commercial Bank with the NIB Bank Limited for increasing the resources, total assets and distribution networks?
- A) Downsizing
- B) Rightsizing
- C) Reengineering
- D) Merger
Changes are made to overcome the pressures inserted by both individual resistance and group conformity, is known as:
- A) Refreezing
- B) Movement
- C) Unfreezing
- D) Process reengineering
Which of the following is consistent with efforts to reduce costs, speed up decision making, increase flexibility, and empower employees.
- A) Matrix structures
- B) Wider span of control
- C) Narrow span of control
- D) Simple structures
The acts of employees like
Playing online games, chatting, and use of official internet for personal purpose during official hours is:
- A) Cyber Loafing
- B) Social Loafing
- C) Social Facilitation
- D) Telecommuting
Which of the following situation determine dynamic environment?
- A) Less need to decentralize
- B) High rate of change
- C) Steady conditions
- D) Predictable change
Who developed a three-step model for change that included unfreezing, movement, and refreezing?
- A) Douglas Surber
- B) Kurt Lewin
- C) John Kotter
- D) David Mcclelland
Which of the following is not an advantage of flextime?
- A) Increase productivity and innovation
- B) Increased employee commitment with organization
- C) Incur high cost to keep the organization running 24/7
- D) Reduce turnout rate and absenteeism
Which of the following departmentalization achieves economies of scale by placing people with common skills and orientations into common units?
- A) Geographic
- B) Process
- C) Functional
- D) Product
The matrix structure combines which two forms of departmentalization?
- A) Product and process
- B) Customer and product
- C) Process and functional
- D) Functional and product
Performance evaluations are used as a mechanism for all of the following EXCEPT _____.
- A) Compensating employee performance
- B) Initiating corporate social responsibility
- C) Defining job specifications
- D) Identifying training and development needs
Asad, 22 years, recently graduated in Business administration is searching various occupational alternatives that best match to his education and interest. In which of the following career stage you find him?
- A) Exploration stage
- B) Maintenance stage
- C) Establishment stage
- D) Growth stage
If you have a narrow span of control, you have a(n) _____ organization structure.
- A) Tall
- B) Matrix
- C) Efficient
- D) Short
All of the following are benefits of internal change agent EXCEPT:
- A) More control and authority
- B) More diverse experience
- C) Lower out-of-pocket costs
- D) Available more quickly
Mr. Ali “Manager IT”, threatened the resistors that if they don’t own the change, they will be transferred and their promotions will be stopped. Which tactic for overcoming resistance to change is used here?
- A) Coercion
- B) Education
- C) Cooperation
- D) Manipulation