NAME : ______________________________________ NRIC ________________________________

Program : EXECUTIVE BACHELOR IN LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Module 1 – Managing for Organizations

(Class Quiz) : Answer the following true-false questions. (20%)

NO QUESTION TRUE FALSE

1 Middle level managers are responsible for setting goals and planning for

the future.

2 The greatest threat to many issues pertaining to management is a failure

to communicate.

3 Expert and referent power have a negative effect on an individual.

4 Workplace politics, (office politics or organizational politics) is the use

only social networking within an organization to achieve changes that

benefit the organization or individuals within it.

5 Organizational politics involves intentional acts of influence to enhance

or protect the self-interest of individuals or groups.

6 One of the way to reduce office politics is to enhance competition.

7 Leadership is a complex phenomenon involving the leader, the followers

and the situation.

8 Good leadership is all about calculation, planning and following a

checklist.

9 A procedure is typically described as a principle or rule to guide decisions

and achieve rational outcome/s.

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10 An organizational design is the process by which managers create a

specific type of organizational structure and culture so that a company

can operate in the most efficient and effective way.

11 Career development is the process of disapproving an individual’s

abilities in anticipation of future opportunities for achieving career

objectives.

12 Pragmatic followers tend to be mediocre performers in a company.

13 Organizations that achieve the most sustainable success are those that

discourage people to develop their strategies to achieve their goals.

14 Avoiding is always an ineffective conflict management style because it

ignores the conflict instead of confronting it directly.

15 Conflict is always a negative thing and always has negative outcomes.

16 The best vantage point for understanding another's behaviour is from

the other person's frame of reference.

17 A trend in business today is an organizational structure that includes

teams of employees.

18 For empowerment of employees to be successful, employees must be

given educational training.

19 Matrix organizational forms have decreased in popularity as

organizations have become more complex and more decentralized.

20 Structural and technological interventions typically include changes in

organizational design and the technology used by the organization.

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Program : EXECUTIVE BACHELOR IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (EBA) /
EXECUTIVE BACHELOR IN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (EBB)
Module 1 – Managing for Organizations

Answers:-
Question 1 - FALSE

Question 2 - TRUE

Question 3 - FALSE

Question 4 - FALSE

Question 5 - TRUE

Question 6 - FALSE

Question 7 - TRUE

Question 8 - FALSE

Question 9 - FALSE

Question 10 - TRUE

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