With the advent of management science along with its advanced managerial techniques, what has been its impact on the process of decision making?

• A) Decision making process had no impact
• B) Decision making process has become difficult
• C) None of the given options
• D) Decision making has become easy

Which of the following is a characteristic of an innovative organization?

• A) Flexibility
• B) Absence of rigid work rules
• C) All of the given options
• D) Empowered employees

Which one of the following decision approaches indicated that organization – level decisions involved many managers and that a final choice was based on a coalition among those mangers?

• A) Incremental decision process model
• B) None of the above
• C) Carnegie Model
• D) Garbage Can Model

Which of the following elements must be present for any change to succeed?

• A) Implementation
• B) All of the given options
• C) Resources
• D) Idea

Which of the following approach infuses quality values throughout every activity within a company?

• A) Change Management Approach
• B) TQM Approach
• C) MBO Approach
• D) Culture adaptation approach

Which are the types of changes that managers can focus?

• A) Organizational Culture
• B) All of the given options
• C) Products and services
• D) Strategy and structure

“Distribution of goods and telecom services” is an example of:

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

An organization has recently made some change in its production process including some machine parts and redefined work flow methods for making the process efficient. Which type of change is this change?

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

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of radical change?

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

For which type of decision, the organization depends on previous routines, rules and procedures preventing the need for renewed coalition formation and political bargaining?

• A) None of the given options
• B) Non Programmed decisions
• C) Emergency decisions
• D) Programmed decisions

Which type of quality enhancement mechanism infuses quality values throughout every activity within a company through a slow but a step wise process?

• A) Total Quality Management
• B) Business Process Re-engineering
• C) MBO
• D) All of the given options

Which one of the following approaches recommend that the organizations can behave in an organic way when the situation calls for the initiation of new ideas and in a mechanistic way to implement and use the ideas?

• A) Scientific Management Approach
• B) Carnegie model
• C) Ambidextrous Approach
• D) Management Science Approach

When the field of “management science” first came into being when the techniques of mathematics and statistics were applied to urgent, large scale military problems that were beyond the ability of individual decision makers?

• A) During World War 2
• B) During Gulf War
• C) During World War 1
• D) None of the given options

Which one of the following statements represents the meaning of random change?

• A) None of the above
• B) A change that never takes place
• C) A change that takes take place at once
• D) A change process that takes place slowly and step by step

Which type of decisions are unique, non routine and casually structured decisions that require custom made solution?

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

Which of the following is required for an organization to become a “Learning organization”?

• A) Employees must be educated enough to participate in organizational learning
• B) It should possess a strong and adaptive culture
• C) Organizational decisions must be taken at corporate level in order to ensure clarity
• D) It should be rigid in policies

In idea generation the behavior is _______ and in the process of idea implantation it is _______.

• A) Organic, Mechanistic
• B) Mechanistic, flatter
• C) Mechanistic, Organic
• D) Organic, flatter

Which of the following may be a type of organizational decision making?

• A) The incremental decision process model
• B) All of the given options
• C) The Carnegie model
• D) Management science approach

Which of the following may be the barrier for change in an organization?

• A) Failure to perceive benefits
• B) Uncertainty avoidance
• C) Fear of loss
• D) All of the given options

Which describes how decisions actually have to be made under severe time and resource constraints?

• A) Rational Approach
• B) Bounded Rationality Approach
• C) TQM Approach
• D) MBO Approach