Advanced Strategic Management Set 3

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This set of Advanced Strategic Management Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Advanced Strategic Management Set 3

Q1 | Which individuals are most responsible for the success and failure of an organization?
  • Strategists
  • Financial planners
  • Personnel directors
  • Stakeholders
Q2 | Which of the following is an element of a firm’s remote external environment?
  • Competition
  • Political agencies
  • Suppliers
  • Trade union
Q3 | Long-term objectives should be all of the following except:
  • measurable.
  • continually changing.
  • reasonable.
  • challenging.
Q4 | What are guides to decision making?
  • laws
  • rules
  • policies
  • procedures
Q5 | According to Greenley, strategic management offers all of these benefits except that
  • it provides an objective view of management problems.
  • it creates a framework for internal communication among personnel.
  • it encourages a favourable attitude toward change.
  • it maximizes the effects of adverse conditions and changes.
Q6 | The vision and mission statement can often be found
  • in the SEC report.
  • in annual reports.
  • on customer receipts.
  • on supplier invoices.
Q7 | The process of performing an external audit needs to include:
  • only top-level managers, as it’s a planning function.
  • as many managers and employees as possible.
  • primarily front-line supervisors
  • between 15 to 20 managers for it to be valid
Q8 | Which of the following is not a stage of strategy formulation techniques?
  • Formulation Framework
  • Matching stage
  • External factor evaluation
  • Decision stage
Q9 | ST Strategies is an important strategy to
  • Match weakness with opportunities of the firm
  • Overcome external threats
  • Obtain benefit from its resources
  • Overcome its weakness and reducing threats
Q10 | The immediate external environment includes:
  • Divisions
  • S. B. U. s
  • Competitors
  • Management
Q11 | The comprises economic and social conditions, political priorities and technological developments, all of which must be anticipated, monitored, assessed and incorporated into the executive’s decision making.
  • Internal environment
  • Task environment
  • Operating environment
  • Societal environment
Q12 | Strategic management involves the , directing, and controlling of acompany’s strategy-related decisions and actions.
  • Financing; marketing
  • Planning; financing
  • Planning; organizing
  • Marketing; planning
Q13 | A strategy is a company’s
  • Value statement
  • Pricing policy
  • Game Plan to outsmart competitor
  • Long-term objective
Q14 | Strategy-formulation concepts and tools
  • Do not differ greatly for different size and type of organizations
  • Differ greatly for different size and type of organizations
  • Do not differ greatly for profit or non-profit organizations but differ in small and large organizations
  • None of the mentioned options
Q15 | Annual objectives
  • Are not critical to success
  • Serve as guidelines for action, directing and channelling efforts and activities of organization members
  • Are not important for employee motivation and identification
  • Do not provide a basis for organizational design
Q16 | Which of the following resources is used by all organizations to achieve desiredobjectives?
  • Financial resources,
  • Physical resources
  • Human resources
  • All of the mentioned options
Q17 | Strategic management is
  • A pure science.
  • Based mainly on intuition.
  • Needed mainly when organizational performance falls.
  • Based on the use of quantitative and qualitative information.
Q18 | Large-scale, future-oriented plans, for interacting with the competitive environment to achieve company objectives refers to its
  • Strategy
  • Goals
  • Competitive analysis
  • Dynamic policies
Q19 | Strategic issues require which level of management decisions?
  • Operative
  • Top
  • Front-line
  • Middle
Q20 | Which of these basic questions should a vision statement answer?
  • What is our business?
  • Who are our employees?
  • Why do we exist?
  • What do we want to become?
Q21 | Strategic management process activates in the sequence of
  • Environmental scanning, Strategy formulation, Implementation, c ontrol and evaluation
  • Strategy formulation, Environmental scanning, Implementation, control and evaluation
  • Environmental scanning, Strategy Implementation, formulation, c ontrol and evaluation
  • Strategy formulation, Implementation, control, evaluation, Environmental scanning
Q22 | “A possible and desirable future state of an organization” is called:
  • Mission
  • Vision
  • Strategy implementation
  • None of above
Q23 | Strategic decisions are based on what managers , rather than on what they
  • Know; forecast
  • React to; anticipate
  • Forecast; know
  • Compromise with; analyse
Q24 | “To improve economic strength of society and function as a good corporate citizen on alocal, state, and national basis in all countries in which we do business”. This is a mission statement that contains:
  • Self-concept
  • Economic concern
  • Products or Services
  • Concern for Public Image
Q25 | Strategic-management audit is known as:
  • Environmental scanning
  • Strategy formulation
  • Strategy control
  • Strategy evaluation