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The goal of strategic management in an organization is to deploy and allocate resources
in a way that it provides the company with a competitive advantage. - ✔✔TRUE
To be maximally effective, the human resource management function of a company
must be isolated from the company's strategic management process. - ✔✔FALSE
Strategic planning groups decide on a strategic direction during the strategy
implementation phase. - ✔✔FALSE
In a two-way linkage, an organization is restricted from considering the human
resource issues while formulating their strategic plan. - ✔✔FALSE
External analysis attempts to identify an organization's strategic opportunities and
threats. - ✔✔TRUE
Strategic choice describes the way an organization attempts to fulfill its mission and
achieve its long-term goals. - ✔✔TRUE
Job design addresses what tasks should be grouped into a particular job. - ✔✔TRUE
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, Training refers to a planned effort to facilitate the learning of job-related knowledge,
skills, and behavior by employees. - ✔✔TRUE
Executives who have extensive knowledge of the behaviors that lead to effective
performance tend to focus on evaluating the objective performance results of their
subordinate managers. - ✔✔FALSE
Concentration strategies require that an organization bring radical change to the current
skills that exist in the organization. - ✔✔FALSE
Companies engaged in a cost strategy require employees to have reduced concern for
quantity and a short-term focus. - ✔✔FALSE
Employees in companies with a differentiation strategy need to have only a moderate
concern for quantity. - ✔✔TRUE
Strategies emphasizing market share or operating costs are called "external growth"
strategies. - ✔✔FALSE
Downsizing gives an organization the opportunity to change its culture. - ✔✔TRUE
A learning organization constantly monitors its environment, assimilates information,
makes decision, and flexibly restructures itself to compete in an ever-changing
environment. - ✔✔TRUE
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