Chapter 1 – The basics
1: Which of the following answers describes the goal of responsible organizing the best?
A) The goal is to optimize things in a responsible way
B) The goal is to address the complexity of the goal and manage this simultaneously
C) The goal is to create multiple types of values simultaneously
D) The goal is to understand system approaches and manage its complexity.
2: System approaches helps us to understand and manage complexity by:
1. Critically reflect on organizations as entities that create and destroy multiple types of value
2. Provide recommendations for organizations to improve multiple value creation
A) 1 Is correct
B) 2 is correct
C) 1 and 2 are correct
D) 1 and 2 are wrong
3: Which of the following answers is correct?
Stakeholder theory is a view of capitalism that stresses the interconnected relationships between a
business and its:
A) Customers and communities
B) Employees
C) Suppliers and investors
D) All of the above
4: Which answer gives the best definition of the word stakeholder?
A) Any group or individual who can affect or can be affected by the achievement of an
organization’s purpose
B) Any group or individual who can affect the achievement of an organization’s purpose
C) Any group or individual who can be affected by the achievement of an organization’s purpose
D) Any group of individual that an organization affects with itss actions
5: Which archetype fits best with the image?
A) Tragedy of the commons
B) Policy resistance – fixes that fail
C) Drift to low performance – eroding goals
D) Escalation
6: What can you do to make sure you do not lose sight of the
system/model you created?
A) Divide the elements into sub-elements
B) Make a sum of its parts
C) Start with listing the elements of a system
D) Set boundaries
,7: What is the best way to deduce the systems purpose?
A) Create a model of the system
B) When its function is discovered the purpose will become clear
C) Analyse the model you created
D) Watch and see how the system behaves
8: What is not an example of a flow?
A) Births
B) Sales
C) Drains
D) Temperature
9: When is a stock in a state of dynamic equilibrium?
A) When the sum of all inflows exceeds the sum of all outflows
B) When the sum of fall outflows exceed the sum of all inflows
C) When the sum of all outflows is equal to the sum of all inflows
D) None of these answers are correct
10: Where is the word function generally used for?
A) Human systems
B) Physical things
C) Non-physical things
D) Non-human systems
11: What word is used to describe the relationships that hold elements together?
A) Interconnections
B) System operation
C) Action points
D) Information signals
12: You wish to positively change the system, in order to do so you change certain elements. What is
most likely to happen?
A) You do not succeed, most of the time changing elements results in a negative change in a
system
B) You do succeed, most of the time changing elements results in a positive change in a system
C) You can succeed, depending on which elements you change. Most of the time changing
elements results in either a positive or a negative change in a system
D) You do not succeed, most of the time changing elements results in little or no change in a
system
, 13: You wish to change the system, which statement is true?
A) You change the elements in the system, when changing the elements you have control if a
system changes positively or negatively
B) Changing the purpose or the interconnections, both have the ability to change a system
C) Changing relationships in the system is the best way to change a system
D) You cannot change a system, the whole world is a system of interconnection so a system can
never really be changed it can only adapt
14: Which statement about the figure is true?
A) The figure shows a negative feedback loop: an initial increase in
A leads to a further decrease of A
B) The figure shows a negative feedback loop: an initial increase in
A leads to a further increase of A
C) The figure shows a positive feedback loop: an initial increase in
A leads to a further decrease of A
D) The figure shows a positive feedback loop: an initial increase in
A leads to a further increase of A
15: Which statement about the figure is true?
A) The figure shows a negative feedback loop: an initial decrease
in A leads to a further decrease of A
B) The figure shows a negative feedback loop: an initial increase
in A leads to a further increase of A
C) The figure shows a positive feedback loop: an initial decrease
in A leads to a further decrease of A
D) The figure shows a positive feedback loop: an initial increase in
A leads to a further increase of A
16: Which statement about the figure is true
A) The figure shows logarithmic growth, which fits with a
positive feedback loop
B) The figure shows logarithmic growth, which fits with a
negative feedback loop
C) The figure shows exponential growth, which fits with a
positive feedback loop
D) The figure shows exponential growth, which fits with a
negative feedback loop
17: Which statement about the figure is true
A) The figure shows logarithmic growth, which fits with a
positive feedback loop
B) The figure shows logarithmic growth, which fits with a
negative feedback loop
C) The figure shows exponential growth, which fits with a
positive feedback loop
D) The figure shows exponential growth, which fits with a
negative feedback loop
1: Which of the following answers describes the goal of responsible organizing the best?
A) The goal is to optimize things in a responsible way
B) The goal is to address the complexity of the goal and manage this simultaneously
C) The goal is to create multiple types of values simultaneously
D) The goal is to understand system approaches and manage its complexity.
2: System approaches helps us to understand and manage complexity by:
1. Critically reflect on organizations as entities that create and destroy multiple types of value
2. Provide recommendations for organizations to improve multiple value creation
A) 1 Is correct
B) 2 is correct
C) 1 and 2 are correct
D) 1 and 2 are wrong
3: Which of the following answers is correct?
Stakeholder theory is a view of capitalism that stresses the interconnected relationships between a
business and its:
A) Customers and communities
B) Employees
C) Suppliers and investors
D) All of the above
4: Which answer gives the best definition of the word stakeholder?
A) Any group or individual who can affect or can be affected by the achievement of an
organization’s purpose
B) Any group or individual who can affect the achievement of an organization’s purpose
C) Any group or individual who can be affected by the achievement of an organization’s purpose
D) Any group of individual that an organization affects with itss actions
5: Which archetype fits best with the image?
A) Tragedy of the commons
B) Policy resistance – fixes that fail
C) Drift to low performance – eroding goals
D) Escalation
6: What can you do to make sure you do not lose sight of the
system/model you created?
A) Divide the elements into sub-elements
B) Make a sum of its parts
C) Start with listing the elements of a system
D) Set boundaries
,7: What is the best way to deduce the systems purpose?
A) Create a model of the system
B) When its function is discovered the purpose will become clear
C) Analyse the model you created
D) Watch and see how the system behaves
8: What is not an example of a flow?
A) Births
B) Sales
C) Drains
D) Temperature
9: When is a stock in a state of dynamic equilibrium?
A) When the sum of all inflows exceeds the sum of all outflows
B) When the sum of fall outflows exceed the sum of all inflows
C) When the sum of all outflows is equal to the sum of all inflows
D) None of these answers are correct
10: Where is the word function generally used for?
A) Human systems
B) Physical things
C) Non-physical things
D) Non-human systems
11: What word is used to describe the relationships that hold elements together?
A) Interconnections
B) System operation
C) Action points
D) Information signals
12: You wish to positively change the system, in order to do so you change certain elements. What is
most likely to happen?
A) You do not succeed, most of the time changing elements results in a negative change in a
system
B) You do succeed, most of the time changing elements results in a positive change in a system
C) You can succeed, depending on which elements you change. Most of the time changing
elements results in either a positive or a negative change in a system
D) You do not succeed, most of the time changing elements results in little or no change in a
system
, 13: You wish to change the system, which statement is true?
A) You change the elements in the system, when changing the elements you have control if a
system changes positively or negatively
B) Changing the purpose or the interconnections, both have the ability to change a system
C) Changing relationships in the system is the best way to change a system
D) You cannot change a system, the whole world is a system of interconnection so a system can
never really be changed it can only adapt
14: Which statement about the figure is true?
A) The figure shows a negative feedback loop: an initial increase in
A leads to a further decrease of A
B) The figure shows a negative feedback loop: an initial increase in
A leads to a further increase of A
C) The figure shows a positive feedback loop: an initial increase in
A leads to a further decrease of A
D) The figure shows a positive feedback loop: an initial increase in
A leads to a further increase of A
15: Which statement about the figure is true?
A) The figure shows a negative feedback loop: an initial decrease
in A leads to a further decrease of A
B) The figure shows a negative feedback loop: an initial increase
in A leads to a further increase of A
C) The figure shows a positive feedback loop: an initial decrease
in A leads to a further decrease of A
D) The figure shows a positive feedback loop: an initial increase in
A leads to a further increase of A
16: Which statement about the figure is true
A) The figure shows logarithmic growth, which fits with a
positive feedback loop
B) The figure shows logarithmic growth, which fits with a
negative feedback loop
C) The figure shows exponential growth, which fits with a
positive feedback loop
D) The figure shows exponential growth, which fits with a
negative feedback loop
17: Which statement about the figure is true
A) The figure shows logarithmic growth, which fits with a
positive feedback loop
B) The figure shows logarithmic growth, which fits with a
negative feedback loop
C) The figure shows exponential growth, which fits with a
positive feedback loop
D) The figure shows exponential growth, which fits with a
negative feedback loop
