Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Strategic Management Questionnaire
Strategic Management Questionnaire
STRATEGY FORMULATION
8. Are strategies defined by only top management or middle and lower management
has any role in it? Are they consulted?
No role
Involved
Consulted
11. Do you prepare any External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix or Competitive Profile
Matrix (CPM)?
Yes
No
If yes how?
14. In order to get competitive advantage do you perform any value chain analysis?
Yes, Please specify ___________________________________
No
STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION
15. What are the major strategy implementation activities common in your
organization?
17. Were there any conflicts in the strategic period? If yes, then in which areas? And
how were they resolved? (Avoidance, diffusion, confrontation)
18. When the last restructuring was took place in your organization? What were the
reasons for it? How was it communicated to the relevant employees? How did it take
place?
19. What is the promotion policy of your company? Which tools are commonly used by
your company for promotion purposes? Why are such tools used? Please show a
graphical interpretation for the tools used (pie chart)
20. Does your organization make budgets? Which type of budgeting is used? Does the
actual performance of the organization meet the budgeted? What is the percentage
of variance between budgeted and actual performance? Reasons for such variation?
21. What is the basis of resource allocation of your organizer. What were the reasons for
selecting such basis? Which resource is given the most priority in your organization?
(Financial, Human, Technological)
22. Does the organization maintain a policy manual for standard operating procedures?
Are the policies regularly updated? Are the policies consistently followed by the
employees?
23. Rate your director’s commitment and support to the implementation of strategic
initiatives. (1=v good; 10=v bad)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0
24. Rate how appropriate past and current structure of your organization is to support
the implementation of strategic initiatives. (1=v good; 10=v bad)
25. Do you have your own Research and Development department? Is your organization
the Innovators or the Followers? How do you allocate budget to R & D department?
STRATEGY EVALUATION
27. Does your organization use strategic evaluation tools like Balance score card?
Yes
No
Other tools
No tools
30. Rate your organization’s response time after the acknowledgement that a strategic
initiative is failing.
Immediate response
Normal
Delayed
31. Rate the level of participation in strategic evaluation by Members, Executives and
Management Staff
Very much involved
Partially involved
Somewhat involved
Not involved
33. What corrective actions are most important to correct unfavorable variances
Revise objectives
Alter strategies
Proper evaluation first
The purpose of this questionnaire is to analyze how the strategies are formulated,
implemented and evaluated by various organizations for a project being framed for a
Strategic Management course work at Karachi University Business School- KUBS . We
appreciate your time and feedback. The information collected will be kept confidential.
STRATEGY FORMULATION
34. Are you satisfied with the procedure of SWOT Analysis adapted by your organization?
Yes
No
35. Your organization believes in? Please specify time period i.e. 1 year, 3 years, 5 years etc.
Long-Term objectives ___________
Short-Term objectives ___________
Both
36. How important is strategy formulation to handle suddenly aroused problems and situations?
(Assuming 10 is very important – 1 is least important)
____________
38. Is there any think tank in your organization which is only determined to define and create
strategies?
Yes
No
39. Does your organization have well-defined strategies?
Yes
No
40. Is there any think tank in your organization which is only determined to define and create
strategies?
Yes
No
41. What is the benchmark to measure your organization’s activities?
Self-Evaluation
Competitor
Industry
None
42. What sort of culture does your organization follow?
Autocratic
Bureaucratic
Others, Please specify ____________
STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION
43. On what basis does your organization set its production level? Why? What is the maximum,
optimum and normal level of production of your company?
______________________________________________________________________________
44. According to you, which type of market segmentation, is more beneficial for your
organization?
Geographic
Demographic
Psychographic
Behavioral
Why?
45. Rate your organization’s readiness for organizational change . (1=v good; 10=v bad)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0
46. Rate the willingness of employees to accept and implement the change . (1=v good; 10=v
bad)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0
47. At what extent your firm is financially strong as per your financial ratio analysis?
STRATEGY EVALUATION
Assessment
48. Rate your association’s current practices as they relate to the ongoing assessment of
strategic initiatives.
Very relevant
Partially relevant
Somewhat relevant
Irrelevant
50. Rate your association’s success at identifying corrective action when strategic initiatives are
failing or could be improved.
Highly successful
Partial successful
Somewhat successful
Un successful
Assess Impact of Change/Participation
51. Rate your association’s effectiveness at evaluating the impact of changes subsequent to
initial strategy formulation
Very effective
Somewhat effective
Ineffective
53. Rate the attention paid to abandoning, adjusting or developing new strategies subsequent to
evaluation of the initial strategies by the:
Members
Highly attentive
Somewhat attentive
Negligent
Executive Committee
Highly attentive
Somewhat attentive
Negligent
Executive Director
Highly attentive
Somewhat attentive
Negligent
Management Staff
Highly attentive
Somewhat attentive
Negligent
54. Rate the relevance and suitability of the strategic management model to your association.
Highly suitable and fitting
Somewhat suitable
Not suitable
55. Rate the commitment to Strategic Management as the model of choice for your association
by the
Members
Highly committed
Somewhat committed
Non serious attitude
Executive Committee
Highly committed
Somewhat committed
Non serious attitude
Executive Director
Highly committed
Somewhat committed
Non serious attitude
Management Staff
Highly committed
Somewhat committed
Non serious attitude Your contribution is greatly
appreciated and your Privacy is
highly regarded.
Thank you for your time.