CEO of a large organization provides annual budgets to the different departments based on the financial forecasting of finance department. He follows this pattern every year. Which of the following type of decision he makes in this regard?

• A) Contingency decisions
• B) Non-programmed decisions
• C) Programmed decision
• D) None of the given options

Which of the following is NOT a part of horizontal linkages model?

• A) Total Quality Management
• B) Horizontal Linkages
• C) Boundary Spanning
• D) Specialization

Which of the following may be the strategy for managers to overcome the problem of resistance for change in the organization?

• A) All of the given options
• B) Participation and involvement
• C) Forcing and coercion
• D) Communication and training

How many steps are involved in the rational decision making approach?

• A) Five
• B) Three
• C) Eight
• D) None of the given options

Which of the following claims that many organizational decisions are a series of nibbles rather than a big bite?

• A) Management Science Model
• B) Garbage Can Model
• C) Incremental Decision Process Model
• D) Carnegie Model

Identify which of the following organizations possess a strong and flexible culture.

• A) Learning organization
• B) None of the given options
• C) Bureaucratic organizations
• D) Flat structure organizations

An organization has recently changed it reward structure for its managers that they used to get on the basis of high performance. Which type of change it has made?

• A) Strategic and structural change
• B) Products and services change
• C) Technological change
• D) Organization’s Cultural change

What has been the impact of computer techniques on the decision making at the managerial level?

• A) Managerial decision making has become difficult and more time consuming
• B) None of the given options
• C) There has been no impact of computer techniques on the managerial decision making
• D) Managerial decision making has become easy, reliable and less time consuming

It is the role of ________ to champion the idea after idea generation process.

• A) Middle Management
• B) Non-managerial staff
• C) Lower Management
• D) Top Management

A decision making about the novel and poorly defined problems is called:

• A) Garbage can Decision Making
• B) Programmed Decision Making
• C) Carnegie Decision Making
• D) Non- Programmed Decision Making

Which of the following is not the example of symbols?

• A) Stories
• B) Rites
• C) Ceremonies
• D) Language

What has been the overall of impact of the techniques used in management sciences on the organizational decision making processes?

• A) Decision making has become less efficient
• B) Decision making has become more efficient
• C) Decision making had no impact
• D) None of the given options

Collaboration between which of the two departments is most desired for the success of innovation in an organization?

• A) Technical and marketing department
• B) Finance and marketing department
• C) Technical and finance department
• D) Marketing and IT department

Deployment of which resource is difficult to master in an organization:

• A) Human
• B) Land
• C) Capital
• D) Natural

Which of the following is a characteristic of incremental change?

• A) Technology Breakthrough
• B) New Structures and New Management
• C) Paradigm Breaking Bust
• D) Technology Improvement

Which of the following helped formulate the bounded rationality approach to individual decision making as well as provided new insights about organization decisions?

• A) TQM Approach
• B) MBO Approach
• C) Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need
• D) Carnegie Model

What is meant by the word “forecasting”?

• A) Analysis of past activity without any prediction about the future
• B) Prediction of future activity in contrast with the past activity trend
• C) Prediction of future activity pattern on the basis of past activity trend
• D) None of the given options

Which one of the following is the most critical factor that forces an organization for a change in its internal structure and work processes?

• A) Market share
• B) External environment
• C) Employees
• D) None of the given options

The Carnegie model of decision making is more closely related to which one of the following styles of management?

• A) Centralized management
• B) None of the given options
• C) Bureaucratic management
• D) Participatory management

A manager of a multinational company wants to have some radical changes in the current operations. Which strategy he may use for overcoming resistance to change in the organization?

• A) Forcing and Coercion
• B) Communication and training
• C) Participation and involvement
• D) All of the given options