Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The factors that need to be taken into account when considering the composition
of a team include all of the following except
a. | The preference of team members for team working | b. | The allocation of
team roles | c. | The size of the team | d. | All of the above should be taken into
account |
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Which of the following is a process factor that enables team members to work
together successfully?
a. | A common purpose | b. | Flexibility of team members | c. | The allocation of
team roles | d. | Performance evaluation and rewards |
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The phenomenon in which the desire for consensus leads a group to make bad or
irrational decisions which members might otherwise individually consider to be unwise is
a. | Teamthink | b. | Gangthink | c. | Groupthink | d. | Tribethink |
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Which of the following is a key dimension of organizational structure?
a. | Work design | b. | Formalization | c. | Simple | d. | Multi-divisional |
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Japanese style teamworking has a number of distinctive features which include
all of the following except
a. | Individual reward systems | b. | Multi-skilled workers | c. | Assignment of tasks
to teams | d. | Continuous development of workers’ skills |
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____ set their own goals and inspect their own work, often hire their own
replacements and prepare their own budgets.
a. | Virtual teams | b. | Enlarged teams | c. | Sociotechnical
teams | d. | Self-managed teams |
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There has been a discernible trend in organizational structuring, which can be
characterized by all of the following except
a. | Increasing decentralization | b. | Reducing hierarchies | c. | Increased vertical
integration | d. | Greater use of outsourcing |
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There has been a discernible trend in organizational structuring, which can be
characterized by all of the following except
a. | More fuzzy boundaries between the organization and its supply chain
partners | b. | Smaller, more focused and more autonomous organizational
sub-units | c. | Less use of market-based relationships between organizational
sub-units. | d. | Reducing hierarchies |
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Slack and Lewis (2002) identified the following four possible roles for central
operations
a. | Trainer, governor, facilitator, curator | b. | Trainer, governor,
facilitator, recorder | c. | Trainer, governor, mentor,
recorder | d. | Trainer, messenger, mentor, recorder |
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____ structures are based on loose relationships between different
organizational sub-units
a. | Matrix | b. | Functional | c. | Network | d. | Multi-divisional |
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Handy (1985) identified the following four types of culture
a. | Process, role, task, person | b. | Power, role, task, person | c. | Power, team, task,
person | d. | Process, team, power, environment |
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The principle that efficiency will be increased by each worker specializing on a
single task rather than workers performing a number of different tasks is
a. | Decentralization | b. | Spatial differentiation | c. | Division of
labor | d. | Formalization |
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Which of the following is a basic type of organizational structure?
a. | Network | b. | Matrix | c. | Multi-divisional | d. | All of the
above |
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Which of the following is a contextual factor that influences team
performance?
a. | Leadership | b. | Common purpose | c. | Level of
conflict | d. | Accountability |
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Which of the following is false regarding the traditional functional
organization?
a. | Separates employees from customers | b. | Can inhibit agility and process
improvement | c. | Promotes speed | d. | Requires many
hand-offs |
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