An organization hires a wrong person for a job and then after wasting time and money it decides to terminate that person. It is an example of which of the following?

• A) Feedback control
• B) Feed forward control
• C) Bureaucratic control
• D) Concurrent control

Technical activities of production and the marketing of an organization remain the main focus area of improvement for which stage of organization life cycle development?

• A) Phallic stage
• B) Collectivity stage
• C) Entrepreneurial stage
• D) Formalization stage

In which one of the following types of cultures, personal involvement of all the organizational members remains somewhat lower as compared to other types of cultures and centralization remains high?

• A) The Mission Culture
• B) The Clan Culture
• C) The Bureaucratic Culture
• D) The Adaptability Culture

Which one of the following helps users make sense of the data by searching for patterns that can help solve organizational problems or take advantage of new opportunities?

• A) Data warehousing
• B) Data collection
• C) Data mining
• D) Data source

Which stage of organization life cycle development is identified by departmentalization along with hierarchy of authority, job assignments and beginning of division of labour?

• A) Formalization stage
• B) Elaboration stage
• C) Entrepreneurial stage
• D) Collectivity stage

Which of the following is NOT an artifact of culture?

• A) Stories
• B) Rites and Ceremonies
• C) Symbols
• D) Collective belief

Which one of the following stages is NOT a stage of organizational life cycle?

• A) Formalization Stage
• B) Entrepreneurial Stage
• C) Anal Stage
• D) Collectivity Stage

Which of the following means the usage of huge databases which allows users to access the data directly, creating reports and obtaining response to what - if questions?

• A) Data processing
• B) Data cleaning
• C) Data warehousing
• D) Data structuring

Which one of the following is right for a socially responsible practice?

• A) It is only for legal requirements
• B) It is only a marketing strategy
• C) It can be used as a long term company’s investment
• D) It only increases business cost

The sum of information, experience, understanding, relationships, processes, innovation, and discoveries of a company is known as:

• A) Initial capital
• B) Service capital
• C) Financial capital
• D) Intellectual capital

Which one of the following stages is the third stage in the development of the organization?

• A) Elaboration Stage
• B) Formalization Stage
• C) Entrepreneurial Stage
• D) Collectivity Stage

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?

• A) The Bureaucratic Culture
• B) The Clan Culture
• C) The Adaptability Culture
• D) The Mission Culture

The set of values, guiding beliefs, understandings, and ways of thinking that is shared by members of an organization is termed as:

• A) Tradition
• B) Custom
• C) Norms
• D) Culture

Johnson & Johnson is actually a group of how many separate companies?

• A) 140
• B) 120
• C) 150
• D) 180

Which of the following 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?

• A) Clan culture
• B) Bureaucratic culture
• C) Entrepreneurial culture
• D) Mission culture

If in an organization smoking is not allowed, the check put on such issue will come under:

• A) Bureaucratic control
• B) Clan control
• C) Feed forward control
• D) Market control

Which of the following best describe the random change?

• A) None of the given options
• B) A change that never takes place
• C) A change that takes place at once
• D) A change process that takes place slow and step by step

Which one of the following is right for those actions which are perceived unethical by the society?

• A) None of the above
• B) Socially responsible
• C) Always illegal
• D) Not necessarily illegal

What is the level of centralization in an organization with a bureaucratic approach?

• A) Remains high
• B) Remains low
• C) Remains high and low both
• D) Remains unchanged

Which of the following is the force that calls for major organizational change and innovations in the modern era?

• A) A shift to capitalism
• B) All of the given options
• C) International economic integration
• D) Advancing technology