MCQ Bank
The organizational design of Aleem enterprise is characterized by a low degree of departmentalization, centralized authority, and limited formalization. Identify the organizational design of Aleem enterprise:
- A) Simple structure
- B) Matrix structure
- C) Organic structure
- D) Bureaucratic structure
Omega Electronics Company decides to establish southern, Midwestern, western, and eastern zones of operation. Based on this expansion, the organization is doing which of the following type of departmentalization?
- A) Customer
- B) Geography
- C) Regional
- D) Matrix
The unity-of-command principle states which of the following?
- A) Employees should report directly to two supervisors to maintain task balance
- B) An individual should be directly responsible to only one supervisor
- C) Managers should provide direction to employees in a unified fashion
- D) Managers should limit their control to a maximum of ten employees
Which of the following is an attribute of employee’s performance?
- A) All of the given
- B) Opportunity
- C) Ability
- D) Motivation
Which of the following is one of the most popular ways to group activities?
- A) Process
- B) Function
- C) Geography
- D) Product
Outside consultants are more willing to initiate _______________.
- A) First order change
- B) None of the given
- C) Second order change
- D) Third order change
A summary of a person’s personal development needs and an action plan to achieve them is called;
- A) Specialized development plan
- B) Performance appraisal system
- C) Personal development plans
- D) Occupation development plan
A type of career path which contains both vertical sequence of jobs and series of horizontal opportunities is known as_________________
- A) Dual career path
- B) Lateral skill path
- C) Network career path
- D) Traditional career path
The number of subordinates a manager can effectively and efficiently direct in an organization is known as:
- A) Authority
- B) Chain of Command
- C) Span of Control
- D) Unity of Command
Which one of the following is consistent with a simple structure?
- A) Standardization
- B) High centralization
- C) High employee discretion
- D) Bureaucracy
_______________ is a career path type, in which technical specialists and professionals are hired and allowed to contribute their expertise to the company without having any managerial ambitions.
- A) Network career path
- B) Dual career path
- C) Traditional career path
- D) Lateral skill path
Stabilizing a change intervention by balancing the driving and restraining forces refers to:
- A) Unfreezing
- B) Refreezing
- C) Movement
- D) None of the given
Which of the following steps in appreciation inquiry process is characterized by writing of action plans and development of implementation strategies?
- A) Dreaming
- B) Destiny
- C) Design
- D) Discovery
ALL of the following are dysfunctional aspects of culture EXCEPT:
- A) Barriers to Acquisition and Mergers
- B) Barriers to Diversity
- C) Barriers to Technology
- D) Barriers to Change
A plant manager who organizes the plant by separating engineering, accounting, manufacturing, personnel, and purchasing into departments is practicing which of the following type of departmentalization?
- A) Geographic
- B) Product
- C) Functional
- D) Customer
Which of the following is a structure characterized by extensive departmentalization, high formalization, a limited information network, and centralization?
- A) Mechanistic model
- B) Organic model
- C) Simple model
- D) All of the given
Group discussion is the part of which of the following organizational development technique for bringing change?
- A) Survey Feedback
- B) Sensitivity Training
- C) Process Consultation
- D) Team Building
Career-impacted life stage in which employee is maintaining the earned career gains, well settled, got enough experience and enough understanding of organization and business conducted in it is known as:
- A) Maintenance stage
- B) Exploration stage
- C) None of the given
- D) Growth stage
Which of the following departmentalization can be considered necessary in an organization where the company’s products fall into several categories with very different production methods for each category?
- A) Production
- B) Matrix
- C) Process
- D) Customer
Questionnaire is used in which of the following OD techniques for bringing change?
- A) Sensitivity Training
- B) Survey Feedback
- C) Team Building
- D) Process Consultation