MGMT 3000 STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔An organizaton that looks for a niche in the marketplace is following which of these
strategies? - ✔✔focus
✔✔An organization's real goals are revealed by - ✔✔Its actions in the marketplace and
community.
✔✔In Management by Objectives (MBO), goals _______. - ✔✔are jointly set by
employees and managers.
✔✔Strategic plans address - ✔✔overall organizational goals.
✔✔Tactical plas are operational plans that identify - ✔✔how overall goals are to be
achieved.
✔✔Organizational design requires a manager to - ✔✔change or develop the structure
of an organization
✔✔All of the following are part of the process or designing organizations, except: -
✔✔Determining goals for the organization.
✔✔Which of these is a synonym of work specialization? - ✔✔Division of labor
✔✔Functional departmentalization groups jobs by - ✔✔tasks they perform.
✔✔The manager of a soap company created a bath soap department, a laundry
detergent department, and a dish soap department. Which of the following is the
manager using? - ✔✔Product departmentalization
✔✔The line of authority that extends from the upper levels of management to the lowest
levels of the organization is termed the - ✔✔chain of command
✔✔prevents an employee from receiving conflicting orders from two different bosses. -
✔✔unity of command
✔✔is the power base that is used when a person is close to another person who has
great power and/or authority. - ✔✔Referent power
✔✔A traditional 'top-down' organization is _______ organization. - ✔✔a largely
centralized
, ✔✔A(n) _______ organization has a high degree of specialization, formalization, and
centralization. - ✔✔mechanistic
✔✔A(n) ______ organization is able to change rapidly as changes occur in the
marketplace. - ✔✔organic
✔✔A company that is pursuing a low-cost leadership strategy would be most likely to
have this kind of organizational structure - ✔✔Mechanistic.
✔✔Global competition forces an organization to - ✔✔become lean, fast, and flexible.
✔✔What is the strength of a simple organizational structure? - ✔✔Accountability is
clear.
✔✔A key characteristic of an organization with a functional structure is -
✔✔Departmentalization.
✔✔This is a weakness of a functional structure. - ✔✔Favoring functional goals over
organizational goals.
✔✔In a _____ organizational structure, each department or unit has complete
autonomy to reach its goals - ✔✔divisional
✔✔In a team structure, team members - ✔✔make decisions and are accountable for
their decisions.
✔✔Boundaryless organizations try to eliminate _____ within their organizations. -
✔✔horizontal specialization and verital hierarchy
✔✔All of these are characteristics of learning organizations, except: - ✔✔Fear of
making Mistakes.
✔✔The final steps in the Human Resource Management process deals with -
✔✔performance and compensation.
✔✔The most important environmental (context) factor in the HRM process is - ✔✔the
legal environment.
✔✔Which US law gives a job applicant the legal right to see letters of recommendation
submitted by references to potential employers? - ✔✔privacy act
✔✔The first step for any manager in the employment planning process involves making
a(n) - ✔✔human resource inventory.
WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔An organizaton that looks for a niche in the marketplace is following which of these
strategies? - ✔✔focus
✔✔An organization's real goals are revealed by - ✔✔Its actions in the marketplace and
community.
✔✔In Management by Objectives (MBO), goals _______. - ✔✔are jointly set by
employees and managers.
✔✔Strategic plans address - ✔✔overall organizational goals.
✔✔Tactical plas are operational plans that identify - ✔✔how overall goals are to be
achieved.
✔✔Organizational design requires a manager to - ✔✔change or develop the structure
of an organization
✔✔All of the following are part of the process or designing organizations, except: -
✔✔Determining goals for the organization.
✔✔Which of these is a synonym of work specialization? - ✔✔Division of labor
✔✔Functional departmentalization groups jobs by - ✔✔tasks they perform.
✔✔The manager of a soap company created a bath soap department, a laundry
detergent department, and a dish soap department. Which of the following is the
manager using? - ✔✔Product departmentalization
✔✔The line of authority that extends from the upper levels of management to the lowest
levels of the organization is termed the - ✔✔chain of command
✔✔prevents an employee from receiving conflicting orders from two different bosses. -
✔✔unity of command
✔✔is the power base that is used when a person is close to another person who has
great power and/or authority. - ✔✔Referent power
✔✔A traditional 'top-down' organization is _______ organization. - ✔✔a largely
centralized
, ✔✔A(n) _______ organization has a high degree of specialization, formalization, and
centralization. - ✔✔mechanistic
✔✔A(n) ______ organization is able to change rapidly as changes occur in the
marketplace. - ✔✔organic
✔✔A company that is pursuing a low-cost leadership strategy would be most likely to
have this kind of organizational structure - ✔✔Mechanistic.
✔✔Global competition forces an organization to - ✔✔become lean, fast, and flexible.
✔✔What is the strength of a simple organizational structure? - ✔✔Accountability is
clear.
✔✔A key characteristic of an organization with a functional structure is -
✔✔Departmentalization.
✔✔This is a weakness of a functional structure. - ✔✔Favoring functional goals over
organizational goals.
✔✔In a _____ organizational structure, each department or unit has complete
autonomy to reach its goals - ✔✔divisional
✔✔In a team structure, team members - ✔✔make decisions and are accountable for
their decisions.
✔✔Boundaryless organizations try to eliminate _____ within their organizations. -
✔✔horizontal specialization and verital hierarchy
✔✔All of these are characteristics of learning organizations, except: - ✔✔Fear of
making Mistakes.
✔✔The final steps in the Human Resource Management process deals with -
✔✔performance and compensation.
✔✔The most important environmental (context) factor in the HRM process is - ✔✔the
legal environment.
✔✔Which US law gives a job applicant the legal right to see letters of recommendation
submitted by references to potential employers? - ✔✔privacy act
✔✔The first step for any manager in the employment planning process involves making
a(n) - ✔✔human resource inventory.
