Below are a number of multiple choice questions relevant to this chapter. There are two to three variations on the same questions. Each question has four options; the correct answer is written in the final column. Some questions are very simple, while others are much more difficult; this should be taken into account when setting quizzes or exams.
For each of the following questions, read each question carefully and then choose the answer you believe is most correct:
Question and options | # | Ans. |
Mintzberg used ______ to establish what managers do in practice. a. interviews b. videos c. diaries d. confessional accounts | 1 | |
Minztberg discovered that managers ______. a. are rational planners b. are randomly disorganized c. are extremely busy d. play diverse improvisational roles | 2 | |
Mintzberg ______ rational planning approaches to strategy. a. favoured b. used c. criticized d. feared | 3 | |
For Mintzberg, strategy was most likely to be based on ______. a. planning b. following orders c. irrationality d. creative synthesis | 4 | |
Strategy is the proper preserve of ______, according to Mintzberg. a. the organizational elites b. the organization’s workers c. emergent processes d. trade unions | 5 | |
Mintzberg argued that strategy is best thought of as ______. a. a garbage can b. a stream of decisions made over time c. a rational planning exercise d. a stable fantasy | 6 | |
With what model of strategy is Mintzberg most frequently associated? a. emergence b. rational c. voodoo d. spiritual | 7 | |
Mintzberg’s critique of strategic planning proposed that it was founded on which of the following flawed assumptions? a. formalization b. detachment c. division of labour d. all of these | 8 | |
Which of the following is one of Mintzberg’s critiques of the strategic planning perspective? a. qualification b. quantification c. inclusiveness d. dogmatism | 9 | |
Which of the following comprise one of Mintzberg’s 5 P’s of strategy? a. prohibition b. personality c. positivity d. perspective | 10 | |
Mintzberg adopted a ______ view of strategy. a. top-down b. logical incremental c. bottom-up d. sideways | 11 | |
Mintzberg’s approach suggests that strategists formulate strategy from ______. a. the newspapers b. textbooks c. strategic thinking tools d. consultancy models | 12 | |
Quinn’s view of strategy is known as: a. positive incrementalism b. logical incrementalism c. positive logicalism d. logical positivism | 13 | |
Andrew Pettigrew’s framework of strategic change involves ______, ______ and ______. a. content, contingencies and control b. concepts, process and value c. capital, process and outcomes d. content, process and context | 14 | |
Pettigrew’s perspective stresses the role of ______ in strategy. a. rationality b. planning c. power and politics d. policies | 15 | |
Pettigrew is famous for which book based on his longitudinal research on strategy at ICI? a. the Sleeping Giant b. the Creative Giant c. the Awakening Giant d. the Gentle Giant | 16 | |
Which of the following research methods is important in Pettigrew’s approach? a. comparative spatial analysis b. multiple regression analysis c. survey research d. ethnography | 17 | |
What type of learning involves learning about a problem within a given frame of reference? a. looped learning b. single-loop learning c. double-loop learning d. outside-the-box learning | 18 | |
What type of learning involves learning to change the frame of reference that normally guides thinking about a problem? a. looped learning b. single-loop learning c. double-loop learning d. outside-the-box learning | 19 | |
Double-loop learning is essential for ______. a. emergent strategy b. planned strategy c. strategy success d. none of these | 20 | |
Deutero-learning is ______. a. mainly found in books b. mainly found on websites c. largely unconscious d. highly explicit and formalized | 21 | |
Organization culture comprises ______. a. what is found in corporate art galleries b. paintings on the walls of the board room c. statues in the gardens of the organization d. the taken-for-granted ways an organization perceives its environment and itself | 22 | |
What are the three components of culture, according to Schein? a. artefacts/espoused values/basic assumptions b. paintings/statues/poems c. artefacts/material things/other stuff d. philosophy/politics/economics | 23 | |
Peters and Waterman’s book was entitled In Search of ______. a. Wisdom b. Nirvana c. Excellence d. The Holy Grail | 24 | |
Peters and Waterman endorsed the idea of ______ corporate cultures. a. playful b. weak c. strong d. popular | 25 | |
Barney asked whether organizational culture could be a source of: a. innovation b. customer retention c. employee motivation d. sustained competitive advantage | 26 | |
Which of the following theorists is associated with organizational sensemaking? a. Thomas Hobbes b. Sun Tzu c. Karl Weick d. Gary Hamel | 27 | |
Sensemaking produces ______. a. a plausible narrative b. amusing stories c. detailed plans d. war games | 28 | |
Weick (2007) defines ______ as the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalize what people are doing. a. strategy b. business planning c. sensemaking d. sensegiving | 29 | |
According to Chandler, unless ______ follows ______, inefficiency rules. a. structure/strategy b. planning/rationality c. strategy/structure d. none of these | 30 | |
______ are the building blocks that frame the ______ we use. a. Metaphors/narratives b. Strategies/stories c. Metaphors/representations d. Interpretations/sense | 31 | |
SWOT and PESTEL analysis are examples of ______ devices. a. sense-breaking b. sense-giving c. sense-making d. none of these | 32 | |
According to Weick, organizational environments are ______. a. objectively real b. imaginary c. non-existent d. enacted | 33 | |
Barry and Elmes suggest that ‘______ must rank as one of the most prominent, influential, and costly stories told in organizations’. a. the annual report b. the Bible c. advertising d. strategy | 34 | |
Kim and Mauborgne distinguish between ______. a. red and blue ships b. red and blue chips c. red and blue oceans d. red and blue colours | 35 | |
______ are widely used as strategy tools in the company 3M. a. Audits b. Social impact analysis c. Stories d. None of these | 36 | |
Who originated the storytelling approach? a. Michael Porter b. Henry Mintzberg c. David Boje d. Edith Penrose | 37 | |
Ezzamel and Willmott propose that strategy is best thought of as: a. an objective science b. a subjective process c. a discourse d. a discipline | 38 | |