2nd Round Management Model exam,2016

1. 38. Which type of organizational change involves making incremental adjustments to existing processes and procedures?

2. 16. which one is odd from the given factors for firms marketing abroad _________________

3. 40. What is the term for a planned process for managing resistance to change in an organization?

4. 13. Which of the following is false about organizational buying behavior?

5. 49. Which one of the following CANNOT be the purpose of report writing in research?

6. 68. Which one of the following is CORRECT?

7. 36. ____________is solely power as a result of his or her position in the organization reward, coercive, and legitimate power

8. 82. Which of the following is TRUE about business strategies?

9. 31. The theory which states there is no one best way of managing or managerial technique universally applicable in all situations; rather, it depends upon a given set of circumstances is

10. 15. Which one is not reason of international marketing

11. 73. Which of the following statement best expresses retrenchment?

12. 48. Mr. Chala, who is conducting research on “consumers buying behavior,” collects data using questionnaire from the same sample three times. What is the type of survey employed by Mr. Chala?

13. 23. Which of the following is NOT the internal factors that affect recruitment functions?

14. 100. The critical path in network problem is-

15. 90. A method of budgeting that estimates today’s value of money to be received in the future is______________.

16. 53. If the probability that a product will be well designed is 0.80 and the
probability that it will be well designed and change preference of customer is 0.6, what is the probability that it will change customer preference given that well designed?

17. 57. Which one of the following used to test the independence of two variables?

18. 72. Which of the following is associated with the type of leadership in the organization and the overall style of management of operations?

19. 5. Which one of the following is correct regarding to managerial skills?

20. 25. All are benefits of performance appraisal for the appraise Except,

21. 79. Which one of the following is NOT a reason for conducting feasibility study?

22. 11. Among the give alternative one is not the importance of promotion

23. 52. Suppose Oromia cooperative bank wants to estimate the average income of its employees per month. Accordingly it takes 5 sample employees and the salary of each employees are 6750, 9940, 8754, 12,560 and 10,376 birr per month. What is the average salary of the bank per month?

24. 4.__________ involves evaluating the candidates and choosing the one whose credential match job requirement.

25. 77. Which of the following statements about the project payback period is least accurate

26. 81. Which one of the following statement is incorrect about the importance of studying operations management?

27. 91. When capital market is booming, firms can take market route to ________.

28. 3.__________ is a leadership style in which the decision making activity is made solely by the manager.

29. 71. While analyzing internal environment strategist’s decision about firm’s resources, capabilities and core competences are affected by:

30. 2.Among the following alternatives which one is not the activity performed in organizing function of management?

31. 14. ………..is the stage of new product development the product and marketing program are tested in more realistic market setting

32. 97. Which of the following cannot be the aim of transportation problem?

33. 78. The initial cash outlay of a project is Birr 50,000 and it generates cash inflows of Birr 20,000, Birr 15,000, Birr 25,000 and Birr 10,000 in first four years and assume 10% rate of discount. Using present value index method the net present value is,

34. 98. The solution to transportation problem with m-sources and n-destinations is feasible if the number of allocations is-

35. 50. Which of the following statement regarding quantitative and qualitative data is FALSE?

36. 18. One of the early problems faced by Toyota when it attempted to market its line of automobiles in the Japan was a severe shortage of spare parts. If Toyota’s management makes the decision to correct this problem, in which of the following components of the product component model would management need to make improvement?

37. 56. You are given the following information about advertising expenditure and sales: . Advertisement (x) (100, 000 Birr) Sales (y) (100,000 Birr)
Arithmetic mean, x 10 90
Standard deviation, σ 3 12
Correlation coefficient = 0.8

38. 96. ABC Company produces two types of products: bag and shoes. Each unit of bag requires 4 units of raw material A, 2 units of raw material B, and 3 units of raw material C. Each unit of shoes requires 10 units of raw material A, one unit of raw material B, and 3 units of raw material C. The inventory count indicates that 100, 22, and 39 units of raw material A, B, and C are available, respectively. Each unit of bag yields a profit of Birr 60 and each unit (pair) of shoes yields a profit of Birr 50. How many units of bag and shoes should be produced, respectively?

39. 10. ______ is a method that the price of a product is decided based on the perception of consumers rather than sellers cost as the key factor

40. 60. In which product life cycle does peoples become unaware of the product or service, sales may rise very slow, and promotional costs will probably be high?

41. 9. Channel decisions must be considered carefully for the following reasons, except?

42. 46. Which of the following CANNOT be the purpose of a research proposal?

43. 75. All of the following are among the common features of project except

44. 27. _______________ is a performance rating error existing when some raters have a tendency to be generous in their rating by assigning higher rates constantly.

45. 43. Which of the following is a strategy for building change readiness in an organization?

46. 39. Which leadership style emphasizes nurturing and empowering employees to achieve their full potential?

47. 95. Berhan Furniture creates tables and chairs. Each table requires 2 hours of carpentry and 3 hours of painting, while each chair needs 1 hour of carpentry and 2 hours of painting. There are only 12 hours of carpentry and 15 hours of painting available per week. Each unit of table yields a profit of Birr 40 and chair yields a profit of Birr 20 per unit. What will be the objective of the company?

48. 34. All are the Features of Motivations except one

49. 54. On the average, 2 customers will be served in every ten minutes in Commercial bank of Ethiopia. What is the probability that during a given 10 minutes at least one customer will be served?

50. 1.      From the following alternatives, which one is not correct?

51. 76. The component of project feasibility study that determines whether the prerequisites for the successful commissioning of the project have been considered is

52. 20. Under _______, the strategy is to simultaneously pioneer the newly developed product in all kinds of global markets.

53. 33. _______________ is “a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.

54. 62. Which of the following CAN be the failure factor for small businesses?

55. 99. A decision tree is preferable to a decision table when-

56. 26. Which of the following is a NOT area at which compensation package is important in the workplace?

57. 80. Which of the following is FALSE regarding to financial and economic analysis of the project?

58. 85. The layout in which all the equipment’s performing similar tasks are grouped together is called……?

59. 19. An arrangement to pay for import of goods and services with something other than cash is known as _________

60. 59. Which of the following form of business has limited liability?

61. 92. The long-run objective of financial management is to _____________.

62. 21. “International marketing is a global procedure of planning and executing conception, pricing, promotion” The definition fails to recognize

63. 42. Which leadership style encourages employees to participate in decision-making and problem-solving?

64. 7. What type of controlling is related with screening job applicants and using several effective interviews, managers can minimize the chance of hiring people who lack necessary skills or experience to perform effectively?

65. 41. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of transformational leadership?

66. 6. All of the following are importance of planning except,

67. 61. Currently, SAFARICOM Ethiopia, a telecom operator in Ethiopia, has been highly engaged in providing incentives, such as discounts and prizes for its customers to initiate the interests of customers to use their services. The promotion strategy adopted by a company is:

68. 93. If acceptance of one project do not disqualifies the acceptance of the other project, such type of project is:

69. 69. Which of the following is/are NOT the benefits of strategy?

70. 94. Which of the following is/are NOT the feature of operations research?

71. 30. One is not the major characteristics of Organization behavior:

72. 51. ______ is level of measurement which classifies data into categories that can be ranked.

73. 17. Different strategies are suitable for different companies depending on their particular situation. This is articulated by the “EPRG Framework”. What are the four options of the EPRG Framework?

74. 47. Mr. Abebe is a laboratory technician at Salale University. While conducting research, he manipulates variables to study the effect on another variable. What type of research is being conducted by Mr. Abebe?

75. 32. One cannot define Personality

76. 44. Which of the following is TRUE about applied research?

77. 63. Cooperative Bank of Oromia, previously operating only in Ethiopia, enters Kenyan market with its current banking services. A business growth strategy used by the bank is-

78. 89. The term _________________ refers to the period in which the project will generate the necessary cash flow to recover the initial investment.

79. 45. Ayantu, fourth year management student, examines the collected raw data to detect errors and omissions and to correct these when possible. The activity performed by Ayantu is:

80. 29. ________an employment interview conducted to know whether the candidate can handle the demands of a complex job.

81. 64. ABC restaurant noticed that people were cooking meals in their homes less often but wanted to avoid the hassle of going out to eat. People wanted to ‘‘eat in’’ without cooking. By considering this issue, ABC restaurant company started delivering food to customers’ homes and businesses by takeout taxi. This business idea “delivering food by takeout taxi” is the result of-

82. 88. ……is the degree to which the design specifications for a product or service are appropriate to its function and use, and the degree to which a product or service conforms to its design specifications

83. 37. Which factor contributes to successful change implementation?

84. 35. The type of conflict that occurs when two or more organizational members disagree on their task or content issues

85. 67. Assume that a group of individuals with common political interest leverages of an organization’s computers and information via the Internet, and caused physical, real-world harm or severe disruption of the computers and information infrastructure. What does this act represent?

86. 87. Which of the following does not affect the choice of plant location decision?

87. 65. Which of the followings is correctly ordered regarding the knowledge management systems?

88. 55. Which of the following is the non-random method of selecting samples from a population?

89. 84. . ……is the system in which items are processed in lots and a new lot is undertaken for production only when the production on all items of a lot is complete.

90. 8. According to human relations school management is

91. 24. The process of helping new employees adapt to their new organizations and work responsibilities is ______.

92. 86. Which of the following is not an objective of MRP?

93. 22. ___ is merely a temporary business investment involving renting or leasing an
Opportunity, not the purchase of a business for the purpose of ownership

94. 58. If we reject the null hypothesis which is true, we commit

95. 83. ……refers to the process of creating new products or modifying the existing ones within a predetermined time frame and cost price

96. 66. Which of the followings is an Operations Support Systems?

97. 70. Which of the following is/are the characteristics of business mission statement?

98. 28. An approach to disciplinary action designed to motivate an employee to correct his or her misconduct voluntarily is ______________.

99. 74. Which one of the following statements is related with the company’s market position, competitive pressures, strengths and capabilities?

100. 12. .It is arranging for the product to occupy a clear, distinctive and desirable place relative to competing product in the mind of target customer?