wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Week 8_Strategic Planning

Total questions: 43

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In SWOT Analysis, this specifies the internal factors that may be used for planning.

a)

Strengths and Opportunities

b)

Opportunities and Threats                    

c)

Strengths and Weaknesses       

d)

Weakness and Threats

2.

In SWOT Analysis, this specifies the external factors that may be used for planning.

a)

Strengths and Opportunities

b)

Opportunities and Threats                    

c)

Strengths and Weaknesses       

d)

Weakness and Threats

3.

The process that involves selecting missions and objectives as well as the actions to achieve them which requires decision-making, that is, choosing a course of action from among alternatives 

a)

Decision Making

b)

Policy Making

c)

Planning

d)

Directing

4.

In planning process, this is an important action to be taken in by planners during environmental scanning and after establishing control systems.

a)

Assessment

b)

Implementation

c)

Evaluation

d)

Feedback

5.

“No Eating Inside the Library” is an example of a plan which is considered as the simpliest plan.

a)

Policies

b)

Goals

c)

Rules and Regulations

d)

Objectives

6.

Emphasize rules and are stated as instructions intended to facilitate decision making.

a)

Policies

b)

Goals

c)

Rules and Regulations

d)

Objectives

7.

If a librarian allows a user to borrow books even without an ID card which is a requirement for borrowing, what kind of policy is being applied?

a)

Originated policy         

b)

Implied Policy

c)

Appealed Policy

d)

Externally imposed

8.

This type of policy flow mainly from objectives and are the main source of policy making within the organization.

a)

Originated policy         

b)

Implied Policy

c)

Appealed Policy

d)

Externally imposed

9.

These policies, which come through several channels, dictate the working of an institution even though they may be beyond its control.       

a)

Originated policy         

b)

Implied Policy

c)

Appealed Policy

d)

Externally imposed

10.

This is a characteristics of a good policy where efficiency and existence of contradicting policies dissipates the desired effects.

a)

Consistent       

b)

Flexible

c)

Written

d)

Distinguished from Rules and procedures

11.

This is a factor in making decision where often times decisions are expensive since capital expenditures and personnel might be involved.

a)

Experience

b)

Research and analysis

c)

Group judgement

d)

Experimentation

12.

This is a characteristics of a good policy where policies should be reviewed and changed as new needs arise.

a)

Consistent       

b)

Flexible

c)

Written

d)

Distinguished from Rules and procedures

13.

This is a characteristics of a good policy where policies should be discussed and widely distributed through letters, memoranda, announcements, and policy manuals.

a)

Consistent       

b)

Flexible

c)

Written

d)

Distinguished from Rules and procedures

14.

This type of policy is developed from actions that people see about them and believe to constitute policy.

a)

Originated policy         

b)

Implied Policy

c)

Appealed Policy

d)

Externally imposed

15.

A conceptual framework for a systematic analysis that facilitates matching of the external threats and opportunities with the internal weakness and strengths of the organization.

a)

Users’ Evaluation 

b)

SWOT Analysis 

c)

Environmental Scanning

d)

Information Needs Assessment 

16.

This is considered as the library’s primary planning and control device.

a)

Vision

b)

Goals

c)

Budget

d)

Library Staff

17.

What is the most common form of communication to express organizational purpose, vision, and values?

a)

Historical Statement

b)

Functional Statement

c)

Mission Statement

d)

Purpose Statement

18.

What would establish a definite course of action that will serve to guide and determine present and future decisions?

a)

Policies

b)

Goals

c)

Rules and Regulations

d)

Objectives

19.

Strategic planning is also called...

a)

Long-range planning

b)

Normative planning

c)

Master planning

d)

All of the above

20.

Short-term plan is also called...

a)

Operational plans

b)

Tactical plans

c)

day-to-day plans

d)

All of the above

21.

Initial steps in planning involves environmental scanning or "looking around" in order to develop strategies to deal with changes in external PEST. PEST stands for...

a)

Political, Economical, Sociological and Technological

b)

Politics, Economics, Socials and Technologies

c)

Politics, Economics, Societies and Technologies

d)

Political, Economic, Socials and Technological

22.

Which of the following is not a goal of the library?

a)

To provide collections in a variety of formats which reflects demand and use?

b)

To make the collection more accessible.

c)

To increase system collection turnover rate from 5.2 to 5.5

d)

To improve delivery of information services to library customers.

23.

Which of the following is an example of library objectives?

a)

To provide collections in a variety of formats which reflects demand and use?

b)

To make the collection more accessible.

c)

To increase system collection turnover rate from 5.2 to 5.5

d)

To improve delivery of information services to library customers.

24.

Which of the following is an example of library goals?

a)

To provide collections in a variety of formats which reflects demand and use?

b)

To make the collection more accessible.

c)

To increase system collection turnover rate from 5.2 to 5.5

d)

To improve delivery of information services to library customers.

25.

What kind of plan will you formulate when the administration ask you to prepare a 5-year

development plan for your library?

a)

Operational plan

b)

Strategic plan

c)

Tactical Plan

d)

Statistical plan

26.

Which of the following library projects requires strategic planning?

a)

Repainting of the library building

b)

Relocating Filipiniana collection from first floor to second floor

c)

Constructing a 6-storey new library building.

d)

Changing the format of library card

27.

Which phase of strategic planning gathers data about the social, political, economic, demographic, and technological trends which impact the library?

a)

Environmental scanning

b)

Formulation of the mission

c)

Performance audit

d)

Evaluation success

28.

In making a library development plan, your target must be SMART. What does SMART stand for?

a)

Smart, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-lined.

b)

Specific, meaningful, assertive, realistic, time-lined.

c)

Specific, measurable, assertive, reachable, time-lined.

d)

Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-lined.

29.

This refers to a set of common beliefs held by the organization

a)

Policies

b)

Goals

c)

Core Values

d)

Objectives

30.

Who is involved in the strategic planning?

a)

Library Director only

b)

Library Director and Librarians Only

c)

Librarians only

d)

All personnel working in the Library

31.

This is the first phase of the Strategic Planning which requires an organization to identify a small set of general guiding principles that provide enduring guidelines for human conduct.

a)

Vision

b)

Mission

c)

Values and Culture

d)

Goals and Objectives

32.

They are meant to regulate personal and professional behavior for the common good. They are flexible and specific, leaving no room for doubt.

a)

Rules

b)

Procedures

c)

Policies

d)

Goals

33.

A planning technique wherein the library manager predicts based on the assumption about the future.

a)

Forecasting

b)

Standards

c)

Prediction

d)

Projection

34.

What is the object of imagination of the library, or an act of foresight?

a)

Forecasting

b)

Vision

c)

Goals

d)

Objectives

35.

What do you call the measurable actions to be achieved by the library?

a)

Forecasting

b)

Vision

c)

Goals

d)

Objectives

36.

What do you call the verbal, written, or implied overall guide, which sets up limits and directions around which managerial action takes place?

a)

Activities

b)

Polices

c)

Rules

d)

Procedure

37.

This is a library document that enumerates its policies in relation to its goals and objectives, and serves as a guide in decision-making.

a)

Policy Manual

b)

Library Manual

c)

Collection Development Plan

d)

Staff Development Plan

38.

“A world class public library providing quality information service through state-of-the-art facilities” is a statement of?

a)

Vision

b)

Mission

c)

Goals

d)

Objectives

39.

“To conduct information literacy training for every college researcher during the first quarter of the academic year” is an example of?

a)

Vision

b)

Mission

c)

Goals

d)

Objectives

40.

“A city with information literate individuals through adequate and sufficient information service inspired by credibility, reliability and integrity” belongs to a?

a)

Vision

b)

Mission

c)

Goals

d)

Objectives

41.

“To support the information initiatives of the city government through providing information services, development and implementation of information literacy programs to improve citizenship” exemplifies a?

a)

Vision

b)

Mission

c)

Goals

d)

Objectives

42.

This is a set of required methods of handling activities. Specifically, these are chronological sequence of steps to guide action.

a)

Activities

b)

Polices

c)

Rules

d)

Procedures

43.

Which of the following is an externally imposed policy?

a)

One user per computer

b)

Library Outside visitor’s fee

c)

Circulation policy

d)

Intellectual Property and Copyright