Organızatıonal Theory & Design Final 11. Deneme Sınavı
Toplam 20 Soru1.Soru
What kind of product innovation is involved in "redesigning an automobile model"?
Process innovation |
Routine innovation |
Radical innovation |
Disruptive innovation |
Architectural innovation |
Routine (incremental) innovation is based on having the existing business model, exploiting the existing knowledge base and small improvements of existing products. The majority of product innovations are incremental ones, such as adding an extra blade with each new version of the razor, putting a new and faster chip into the PC, and redesigning an automobile model, since it is easier and less risky than radical innovation.
2.Soru
Which of the following is true about the behavioral school theory?
Behavioral school suggests that if expanding and growing organizations do not desire to turn out to be inadequate, they must adhere to the ideal bureaucracy structure. |
The basic contribution of it is the emphasis on the informal aspects of organizations. |
The focus of this school is on the structure and physical design of organizations. |
The role of a manager is to plan and organize the work, while the role of a worker is to fulfill the duties successfully assigned to him/her. |
This school determined the management functions such as planning, organization, chain of command, coordination, and control that are still valid and important to this day. |
According to bureaucratic theory, if expanding and growing organizations do not desire to turn out to be inadequate, they must adhere to the ideal bureaucracy structure (Choice A).While the classical management thought tackles the structural and physical design of organizations, the behavioral school focuses on human relations within organizations (Choice C). The role of a manager in scientific management is to plan and organize the work, while the role of a worker is to fulfill the duties successfully assigned to him/her (Choice D). School of Management Principles contributed to management and organization theory in two important areas. First, this school determined the management functions such as planning, organization, chain of command, coordination, and control that are still valid and important to this day. As a second contribution, this school established 14 principals of management: Division of work, authority, responsibility, discipline, unity of command, unity of direction, subordination of individual interests, remuneration, centralization, scalar chain, order, equity, stability of tenure of personnel, initiative, and esprit de corps (Choice E). Following the classical period, studies of the behavioral school’s current representatives are known as the micro-organization theory. The basic contribution of the behavioral school to the classical management theory is the emphasis on the informal aspects of organizations. While the classical management thought tackles the structural and physical design of organizations, the behavioral school focuses on human relations within organizations. The correct answer is choice B
3.Soru
The central mechanism of implementation is exploitation. Which below does exploitation not contain?
Refinement |
Choice |
Production |
Efficiency |
Exploration |
Exploration is about invention.
4.Soru
What can be defined as the implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), or process or a new organizational method?
Innovation |
Architectural innovation |
Routine (incremental) innovation |
Routine (incremental) innovation |
Disruptive innovation |
Innovation can be defined as “the implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), or process…or a new organizational method”
5.Soru
What is the rational decision-making approach mostly criticised for?
For being unrealistic |
For being unfair |
For being too strict |
For being against human rights |
For not having standards |
The rational approach presents a systematic and analytical point of view for managers to make decisions. However, the rational decision-making approach has been criticized and considered to be non-realistic; thus, it has been argued that this approach should be reviewed and made as practical and realistic as possible because the limited capacity of the manager is insufficient to analyze the complexity of business relations in the modern world and to completely clear up problems. The correct answer is Choice A.
6.Soru
What is "the information necessary to achieve a certain production outcome from a particular means of combining or processing selected inputs which include production processes, intra-firm organizational structures, management techniques, and means of finance, marketing methods or any of its combination"?
Technique |
Management |
Technology |
Material |
Design |
The information necessary to achieve a certain production outcome from a particular means of combining or processing selected inputs which include production processes, intra-firm organizational structures, management techniques, and means of finance, marketing methods or any of its combination is called "technology".
7.Soru
Which of the following is NOT an example of artifacts in an organizational culture?
The furnishing, architecture and decor |
The nicknames, names and jargon |
The number of stakeholders |
The jokes and humour |
Rewards and punishments |
In Schein’s levels of organizational culture, the most visible level is called artifacts. Artifacts are the physical, behavioral, and verbal manifestation of the culture. Organizational members talk about organizational culture by using these artifacts. Members also set role models with behavioral patterns they choose is also an example of artifact. Newly recruits are looking for any useful information that is suitable for guiding them on how to behave in the new organizational setting.
8.Soru
Which one below is not among the first reasons behind the rise of organizational culture as a concept for understanding organizations in 90s ?
Individualism and alienation |
Technically advanced production and the rise of service industry |
Machine bureaucracy's becoming less useful in managing people |
Innovative production techniques |
İncrease in cultural exchange among nations |
Individualism and alienation: By the end of 1970s modern societies witnessed widespread diffusion of individualism that alienated people from the society. Lonely people searching for an identity celebrated organizational culture as a haven. Organizational culture allowed people to answer aching questions for raison d’etre! “Who am I, what is my reason for being in this world? what this organization stands for?” are all examples of questions asked and generally found an explanation within the concept of organizational culture. • Technically advanced production and the rise of service industry: Production process was upgraded to an advanced level in which automation became widespread. Moreover, the volume of service industry gradually surpassed goods production in many developed countries. Thus, employees had to be more customer-focused and technically qualified. Consequently, skillful and welltrained employees preferred independent working conditions. Organizational culture, as a way of controlling employee behavior, allows members to use their judgment, and act more freely within defined organizational norms. Once members of the organizations cultivated with organizational values, close supervision will be redundant.
Machine bureaucracy gradually became less useful in managing people: Scientific management was the paradigm relevant to 1960s and 1970s. During 1980s validity of scientific management as the only paradigm for managing people started to be scrutinized. The effectiveness of objective and mathematical management techniques like time-and-motion studies was challenged. This movement led scholars focusing on the human aspect of management, or in other words, “soft” aspects of organizations. •
Innovative production techniques: Mass production techniques increase the level of efficiency. But these techniques usually decrease the overall flexibility of the organization. To balance the level of efficiency with the degree of flexibility, organizations should employ people who have a sense of active belonging and commitment. Organizational culture is providing a cognitive scheme through which members can agree upon collective values, and thus elevates the level of organizational commitment. • Japanese miracle: After the devastation experienced by Japan following the 2nd World War, Japan’s reborn as an economic power found to be related to the Japanese management style. Globalization which is generally equated with getting rid of economic, political, cultural, and technological barriers led to an increase in awareness and curiosity in the global west for the east. It was self-evident that Japanese miracle was mostly related to the Japanese cultural value system and its reflections within Japanese organizations. Other countries also tried to understand and encapsulate these reflections for themselves, and hence the interest in the cultural aspect of organizations tend to strengthen.
9.Soru
What type of innovation is exemplifies in the description below?
A watch is basically used to check time. However, with its new models like Apple Watch, it seems to be reinvented with the integration of novel technology, which makes it more than a watch.
Disruptive innovation |
Incremental innovation |
Radical innovation |
Routine innovation |
Architectural innovation |
Radical innovation is based on existent business model and exploring novel technology, and development of new and different products such as biotechnology for pharmaceutical companies, jet engines for airplane manufacturers, and fiber-optic cable for telecommunication companies.
Routine (incremental) innovation refers to having the existent business model, exploiting the existing technical knowledge base and small improvements of existent products.
Architectural innovation integrates new business models with new products that are based on new technical knowledge.
Disruptive innovation requires a new business model but not necessarily a technological breakthrough. For that reason, it also challenges or disrupts, the business models of other companies.
10.Soru
I. Factor conditions
II. Demand conditions
III. Supply conditions
IV. Firm strategy, structure, and rivalry
Which of the factors above are described as attributes that can lead to national competitive advantage by Porter?
I and III |
II and III |
III and IV |
I, II and IV |
II, III and IV |
Porter described four attributes that can lead to national competitive advantage:
- Factor conditions
- Demand conditions
- Related and supporting industries
- Firm strategy, structure, and rivalry
11.Soru
What type of technique to deal with resistance to organizational change is described below?
* using threats like firing them, stoping promotions or a pay cut in salary
* forcing the resisters to apply what is required
Coercion |
Manipulation |
Negotiation |
Facilitation |
Communication |
Coercion can be used to deal with resistance to change. Coercion involves the use of direct threats or force against the resisters. Notwithstanding, it may be illegal and may undermine change agent’s credibility.
12.Soru
_________________ means that if you also have proofs that prove the truth of the idea against your own idea, you still insist on the accuracy of your own idea.
Complete the definition above with the right element that has impact on the decision.
Overconfidence |
Hindsight Bias |
Anchoring bias |
Confirmation Bias |
Escalation of Commitment |
Escalation of commitment means that if you also have proofs that prove the truth of the idea against your own idea, you still insist on the accuracy of your own idea. Although many decisions by top level managers satisfy them, these ideas may not be that much rational. And despite this possibility, they may have the tendency to show an increasing commitment to their previous decision, which can be seen frequently in top level managers’ decision-making process. According to some explanations, the reason of the commitment to these wrong decisions is the denial of first mistaken decision by the manager himself. The correct answer is Choice E.
13.Soru
Which concept refers to changing the hardware of the work and skills and knowledge of employeed?
Cultural change |
Structural change |
Strategic change |
Organizational change |
Technological change |
Technological change refers to changing the hardware of the work and skills and knowledge of employees.
14.Soru
What does structural inertia mean according to Hannan and and Freeman?
Organisations are fast to respond to environmental changes. |
Big and old organisations are better at meeting environmental demands. |
Organisations become indifferent to external changes. |
New organisations are always the best to adapt to environmental changes. |
Old and small scale organisations are slow in responding to environmental changes. |
Structural inertia means state of being indifferent to external changes. Thus, the correct answer is C.
15.Soru
Which of the following is suggested by the Carnegie Model?
Information is available. |
Decision making is costless. |
A limited range of alternatives is generated. |
Solution is chosen by unanimous agreement. |
Solution chosen is best for the organization. |
For the Rational Mode information is available, but Carnegie Model suggests that limited information is available. According to Rational Model, decision making is costless; however, for Carnegie Model it is costly. Rational Model suggests that full range of possible alternatives is generated, but for the Carnegie Model it is limited. ın Rational Model, solution is chosen by unanimous agreements and solution chosen is best for the organization. On the other hand, in Carnegie Model, solution is chosen by comprise, bargaining, and accommodation between organizational coalitions and solutions chosen is satisfactory for the organiziation. The correct answer is Choice C.
16.Soru
Which type of organizational change includes a repetitive sequence of goal formulation, implementation, evaluation, and modification of a pictured end state, and is rapid and dramatic?
Strategic change |
Planned change |
Prescribed change |
Structural change |
Cultural change |
Planned change includes a repetitive sequence of goal formulation, implementation, evaluation, and modification of a pictured end state, and it is rapid and dramatic.
17.Soru
What kind of product innovation is involved in "adding an extra blade with each new version of the razor"?
Process innovation |
Routine innovation |
Radical innovation |
Disruptive innovation |
Architectural innovation |
Routine (incremental) innovation is based on having the existing business model, exploiting the existing knowledge base and small improvements of existing products. The majority of product innovations are incremental ones, such as adding an extra blade with each new version of the razor, putting a new and faster chip into the PC, and redesigning an automobile model, since it is easier and less risky than radical innovation.
18.Soru
Which of the following is defined as "any cooperative efforts of two or more organizations to achieve strategic objectives of developing, producing or selling products or services"?
differentiation business-level strategy |
cooperative business strategy |
strategic alliance |
competitive business strategy |
focus business-level strategy |
A strategic alliance is any cooperative efforts of two or more organizations to achieve strategic objectives of developing, producing or selling products or services.
19.Soru
In Carnegie decision model, what does " an alternative production made with limited information just to find solutions for the problems" mean?
Rational |
Coalition |
Bounded |
Anarchy |
Satisficing |
In Carnegie decision model, satisficing means " an alternative production made with limited information just to find solutions for the problems". The correct option is E.
20.Soru
Read the following commercial of a paper company:
"Our company leads the integration of bio and forest industries. Our constant aim is to produce more with less. This is what Biofore stands for. Paper is a true Biofore product: made of renewable and recyclable raw material, it remains sustainable throughout its whole lifecycle."
Which one of the following is this company careful about?
Globalization |
Intense competition |
Digitalization |
Social responsibility |
Innovation |
The social responsibility of organizations is to be accountable for individuals, communities, and environment influenced by their activities. This company, too, is environmentally sensitive, so it is careful about its ethical and social responsibilities. Choice (d) is the correct answer.
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