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Administrative Principles
Sample Midterm Examination Questions
NOTE TO STUDENTS: This sample midterm examination is representative of the
TYPES of questions you will encounter on the actual midterm. However, it is NOT
representative of the NUMBER of questions you can expectthe actual midterm will have
many more questions.
Answers are provided at the end of this document.
Section 1: Multiple Choice Questions
1.
2.
3.
project management
organizing
leading
conniving
Which of the following is one of the four different kinds of managers (with
different jobs and responsibilities) identified in the textbook?
a.
b.
c.
d.
4.
figurehead
entrepreneur
leader
liaison
top managers
middling managers
administrative managers
first-time managers
5.
In the ________ role, managers decide who will get what resources and how
many resources they will get.
a.
b.
c.
d.
resource allocator
entrepreneur
disturbance handler
liaison
6. Which of the following is not one of the four sets of characteristics that companies
look for in individuals to identify potential managers?
a.
b.
c.
d.
7.
8.
environmental development
dynamite environment
punctuated equilibrium
The Boston Consulting Group
9.
technical skills
human skills
conceptual skills
perceptual skills
customers
economy
technology
political/legal trends
consumer development
competitive development
reactive customer monitoring
prolific customer monitoring
10.
11.
12.
personal aggression.
production deviance.
property deviance.
political deviance.
15.
14.
values
beliefs
strategy
attitudes
13.
customer reactive
supplier reactive
media development
product boycott
primary; secondary
profit; non-profit
business; nonbusiness
relevant; irrelevant
advocacy groups
newspapers
television stations
employees
16.
The term ________ refers to choosing a goal and developing a method or strategy
to achieve that goal.
a.
b.
c.
d.
17.
Which management theorist would most likely have said, The success of
an enterprise generally depends much more on the administrative ability of
its leaders than on their technical ability?
a.
b.
c.
d.
18.
specific
smart
active
thematic
What is the term for a nontax method of increasing the cost or reducing
the volume of imported goods?
a.
b.
c.
d.
20.
Henri Fayol
Mary Parker Follett
Max Weber
Lillian Gilbreth
19.
goal-setting
planning
strategizing
benchmarking
tariff
nontariff barrier
trade roadblock
risk-aversive boycott
21.
22.
23.
26.
intuitive process
defining problems
evaluating alternatives
choosing optimal solutions
25.
strategic
tactical
operational
single-use
Which of the following is not part of the definition of rational decision making?
a.
b.
c.
d.
24.
special plans.
product development plans.
binary plans.
none of the above are examples of operational plans
absolute comparisons
duplicate comparisons
exclusive rule
maximum threshold rule
feedforward control.
feedback control.
concurrent control.
all of the above
27.
28.
In addition to their employees, where else must organizations have variety in order to
achieve diversity?
a.
b.
c.
d.
29.
When it is difficult to create good measures of worker behaviour and output, and
workers are intrinsically motivated to do their jobs well and have self-leadership
skills, then it is probably appropriate to use ________ control.
a.
b.
c.
d.
30.
capital
company debt
work space
employee skills
bureaucratic
normalcy
team
self
survive
profit ratios
debt ratios
time to market
one-time-only events; (b) standing plans, which save managers time, because they are
created once and then used repeatedly to handle frequently recurring events; and (c)
budgets, which are quantitative plans through which managers decide how to allocate
available money to best accomplish company goals.