BUS1002 Week 7 and week 8 Practice

Which of the following statements about strategic competitiveness is NOT accurate?

• Organisations must continually adapt to new situations if they are to survive and prosper over the long run.

• Managers must continually adapt to new situations if they are to survive and prosper over the long run.

• Organisations that survive and prosper the best are learning organisations.

• Organisations that survive and prosper the best those that extensively utilise complex information technology.

• Managers must stimulate and lead change in order to create learning organisations.

_______________ are ones that mobilise people, values, and systems to achieve continuous change and performance improvements driven by the lessons of experience.

• Learning organisations

• Manufacturing organisations

• Service Organisations

• Organic Organisations

• Adaptive Organisations

__________ refers to change leadership that builds learning organisations and keeps them competitive even in the most difficult and uncertain of times.

• Team leadership

• Strategic Leadership

• Organisational Leadership

• Organisation Development

• Multidimensional Development

__________ is the process of creating new ideas and putting them into practice.

• Creativity

• Invention

• Entrepreneurship

• Intrapreneurship

• Innovation

__________ occurs when strategic and comprehensive changes are initiated with the goal of having a comprehensive impact on the organisation and its performance.

• Top-down change

• Bottom-up change

• Theory O Change

• Outside-in change

• Inside-out change

_________ change is a version of bottom-up change that is based on activities for increasing organisation performance capabilities by improving organisational culture and developing human capital.

• Theory E Change

• Theory J Change

• Theory O Change

• Theory X Change

• Theory Y Change

__________ occurs as a result of the specific efforts of a change agent in direct response to a person's perception of a performance gap.

• Performance change

• Crisis-induced Change

• Unplanned Change

• Innovative Change

• Planned Change

The decision to construct a new overseas plant can be considered to be a(n)

• performance gap

• planned change

• unplanned change

• structural change

• refreezing phase

Which of the following can be described as a performance gap?

• A significant drop in the value of the dollar

• Overseas sales are lower than expected

• An investment of 100 million dollars

• Construction of a new plant

• The sale of an uncompleted plant to another company

Suppose that unexpected conflicts occur among numerous people in several different departments of the organisation, and that these conflicts ultimately result in a new policy on interdepartmental relations. This situation and its outcome could be called a(n)

• unplanned change

• unexpected trouble

• crisis management

• organisational upheaval

• human resources conflict