Question 1

Match each item to a choice.

Response: In this strategy-making mode, the chief executive and a few senior managers decide strategy.
=> Command

Response: In this mode, the strategy is driven by a mission and a vision for the future. => Symbolic

Response: In this mode, the strategy is driven by formal structure and planning systems. => Rational

Response: In this mode, the strategy is made on an iterative basis involving managers and staff. =>
Transactive

Response: In this strategy-making mode, most people in the organization are prepared to use their
initiative. => Generative

Correct answer: In this strategy-making mode, the chief executive and a few senior managers decide
strategy. => Command, In this mode, the strategy is driven by a mission and a vision for the future. =>
Symbolic, In this mode, the strategy is driven by formal structure and planning systems. => Rational, In
this mode, the strategy is made on an iterative basis involving managers and staff. => Transactive, In this
strategy-making mode, most people in the organization are prepared to use their initiative. =>
Generative

Score: 10 out of 10

Question 2

He focuses on the roles that organization actors play in strategy-making and how senior managers
use/manage/tolerate different strategy-making modes.

Response: Stuart Hart

Correct answer: Stuart Hart

Score: 2 out of 2

Question 3

He proposes the strategic planning model, which includes strategy and implementation but ignores
strategic control and evaluation.

Response: Kenneth Andrews

Correct answer: Kenneth Andrews

Score: 2 out of 2

Question 4

This dimension of strategy development states that organizations that are predominantly planners have
clear objectives.

Response: Planning
Correct answer: Planning

Score: 2 out of 2

Question 5

This typifies situations where a leader is charged with turning an organization in crisis around.

Response: Embattled command

Correct answer: Embattled command

Score: 2 out of 2

Question 6

It is a process that incorporates missions and objectives.

Response: Logical incrementalism

Correct answer: Logical incrementalism

Score: 2 out of 2

Question 7

In no more than five (5) sentences, explain the environmental dimension of strategy formation.

Response: The environmental dimension of strategy formation can be described in two ways. First is
past choice constrained strategy. Strategic management is the task of aligning an organization’s
resources with its environment, while also acknowledging that the environment constrains the strategy
of the organization. Organizations become more committed to market positions as they invest more
resources in them. Second is externally imposed strategies. Many companies are forced to adapt to
limits imposed by external stakeholders. The expected behaviors of rivals, suppliers, or consumers, for
example, might limit the operations of enterprises.

Correct answer: The environmental dimension of strategy formation can be described in two (2) ways:
past choice constrained strategy and externally imposed strategies. An organization’s choices are
constrained not only by an explicit cultural dimension in the sense of “what we believe around here” but
also by what skills and resources are available, and in what context those skills and resources become
valuable – the “what we can do around here” question. In this sense, strategies are constrained by path
dependency (choices made in the past constrain options that can be made now). Furthermore, many
organizations have to respond to the constraints imposed upon them by outside stakeholders. The
actions of organizations, for example, can be constrained by the expected responses of competitors,
suppliers, or customers.

Score: 10 out of 10