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Multiple Choice Questions On Business Strategy
Multiple Choice Questions On Business Strategy
1. ________ can be defined as the determination of the basic long - term goals and
objectives of an enterprise, the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of
resources necessary for carrying out these goals..
a. Strategy
b. Strategic dimension
c. Business level strategy
d. None of the above
ANSWER: a. Strategy
2. Which strategy will be used by an organisation that is in more than one line of
business?
a. Innovation
b. Cost control
c. Marketing differentiation
d. Breadth
e. All of the above
a. Breadth strategy
b. Cost control
c. Innovation
d. None of the above
5. Which researcher found out the classic work on the relationship between
organisation strategy and its structure?
i. Defenders, prospectors, Analysers and Reactors are the four types of organisations
classified by Raymond Miles and Charles Snow.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a. True
a. 1-A,2-B,3-C
b. 1-B,2-C,3-A
c. 1-C,2-B,3-A
ANSWER: a. 1-A,2-B,3-C
8. When an organisation sets out to be the low cost producer in its industry, it
follows a __________.
a. Differentiation strategy
b. Focus strategy
c. Low cost leadership strategy
d. None of the above
a. Danny Miller
b. Michael Porter
c. Chandler
d. Raymond Miles
a. 1-B,2-C,3-D,4-A
b. 1-C,2-B,3-A,4-D
c. 1-B,2-C,3-A,4-D
d. 1-A,2-D,3-C,4-B
ANSWER: a. 1-B,2-C,3-D,4-A
a. Lobbying
b. Recruitment
c. Rationing
d. Buffering
ANSWER: a. Lobbying
a. Buffering
b. Boundary spanners
c. Environmental scanning
d. None of the above
a. Recruiter
b. Boundary spanners
c. Advertiser
d. None of the above
a. Marketing researchers
b. Lobbyists
c. All of the above
d. None of the above
a. Buffering
b. Coopting
c. Coalescing
d. None of the above
a. Uncertainties
b. Qualms
c. Suspicions
d. Fluctuations
ANSWER: d. Fluctuations
a. Coalescing
b. Interlocking directorate
c. Coopting
d. None of the above
ANSWER: c. Coopting
9. State true or false.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a. True
a. Government regulations
b. Scarcity of labour
c. Mergers or acquisitions
d. Implementation
ANSWER: d. Implementation
12. ______________ is used to describe the choice of means by which the change
process takes place.
a. Implementation
b. Technology
c. Intervention strategies
d. None of the above
i. Unfreezing the status, moving to a new state and refreezing are the steps in implementing
strategies in the organisation.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b. False
Unfreezing the status, moving to a new state and refreezing are the steps of change
process.
14. Which of these are tactics for dealing with Resistance to change?
a. Both A & D
b. Both B & C
c. Both A & B
d. A, B, C, D
ANSWER: d. A, B, C, D
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: b. False
1. Who found out that the impact of size on complexity was at a decreasing rate?
a. Blau
b. Aston
c. Chris
d. None of the above
ANSWER: a. Blau
ANSWER: c. Aston
3. Which are the two popular methods used to control the behaviour of the
employees?
a. Size
b. Technology
c. Power - control
d. Environment
ANSWER: b. Technology
a. Joan Woodward
b. Charles Perrow
c. James Thompson
d. None of the above
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a. Unit
b. Mass
c. Process production
d. All of the above
7. Who defined technology as the action that an individual performs upon an object,
with or without the aid of tools or mechanical devices, in order to make some change
in that object.
a. James Thompson
b. Charles Perrow
c. Joan Woodward
d. None of the above
1. Which technology links clients on both the input and output side of the
organisation?
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a. True
a. Environment
b. Power - Control
c. Structure
d. All of the above
ANSWER: c. Structure
5. ________ is that part of the environment that is directly relevant to the organisation
in achieving its goals.
a. General environment
b. Specific environment
c. Actual environment
d. Perceived environment
6. ____________ refers to the claim that the organisation stakes out for itself with
respect to the range of products or services offered and markets served.
a. Domain
b. Suppliers
c. Customers
d. None of the above
ANSWER: a. Domain
7. How many English and Scottish firms did Burns and Stalker study to determine
their organisational structure and managerial practice?
a. 10
b. 5
c. 20
d. 30
ANSWER: c. 20
a. Formalization
b. Complex
c. Flexible
d. All of the above
9. Which are the four kinds of environments identified by Fred Emery and Eric Trist?
i. Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch are from Harvard Business School.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: a. True
11. Lawrence and Lorsch choose firms from which of the following industries?
a. Plastic
b. Mechanical
c. Electrical
d. None of the above
a. Capacity
b. Volatility
c. Complexity
d. All of the above