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وهذا الكويز الاخير لشابتر 4 مع الحلول


) Informal plans are not recognized to be an effective form of planning. (1point)

True False



Score: 1
Answer(s): False
Feedback: Correct. Informal plans can be highly effective and highly appropriate for some organizations, especially those that are small in size. As organizations increase in size, the need for formal planning tends to increase.




2) Planning provides direction to managers and nonmanagers alike. (1point)

True False



Score: 0
Answer(s): True
Feedback: Incorrect. Part of the function of planning is to let everyone in the organization know what the future holds, so planning is very important because it informs nonmanagers of what to expect and how to prepare for the future.




3) Informal planning typically works better in large organizations. (1point)

True False



Score: 1
Answer(s): False
Feedback: Correct. Informal planning is generally adequate only for small organizations in which a single individual or small group can keep the plans to themselves. Once the organization grows to a larger size, it becomes necessary for many people to have access to the organization's plans—and that almost always requires formal planning.




4) Planning rarely improves teamwork and cooperation among employees. (1point)

True False



Score: 1
Answer(s): False
Feedback: Correct. In fact, teamwork and cooperation are two things that planning often helps most. The better the plans are, the more coordinated the organization's efforts tend to be.




5) A major argument against formal plans is that they can't replace intuition and creativity. (1point)

True False



Score: 0
Answer(s): True
Feedback: Incorrect. Formal plans typically cannot avoid being more rigid than informal plans, leaving less room for using intuition, spontaneity, and creativity.




6) Managers who make formal plans are more likely to help an organization "break the mold" and carry out truly groundbreaking work that redefines an entire industry. (1point)

True False



Score: 1
Answer(s): False
Feedback: Correct. Formal plans tend to focus on existing opportunities in the current climate rather than the opportunities of the future that are as yet unimagined. Therefore, formal plans are likely to impede, rather than promote, truly groundbreaking work.




7) A major strength of formal planning is that it makes an organization rigid. (1point)

True False



Score: 1
Answer(s): False
Feedback: Correct. Rigidity is a weakness of formal planning. Formal planning can lock an organization into a preset sequence of events that might not be able to cope with changing conditions and circumstances.




8) Successful planning depends more on what managers plan than the quality of their planning. (1point)

True False



Score: 1
Answer(s): False
Feedback: Correct. Evidence shows that organizations often fail not because they focused their planning efforts on the wrong things, but rather that the quality of their planning was deficient.




9) Strategic management is the act of figuring out how an organization will compete in the marketplace and attract loyal customers. (1point)

True False



Score: 0
Answer(s): True
Feedback: Incorrect. Strategic management involves developing an organization's strategies. Those strategies involve making plans for how an organization will do business and achieve its goals.




10) A mission statement for a kayak manufacturer might be: To make the highest-quality kayaks and sell them at a competitive price. (1point)

True False



Score: 0
Answer(s): True
Feedback: Incorrect. A mission statement defines what the organization is in business to do. This statement clearly states why the kayak company is in business.




11) Core competencies include an organization's major capabilities and its resources. (1point)

True False



Score: 1
Answer(s): False
Feedback: Correct. Core competencies include the capabilities of an organizational—its skills and abilities only—not its resources.




12) SWOT analysis includes the identification of an organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. (1point)

True False



Score: 0
Answer(s): True
Feedback: Incorrect. The term SWOT is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.




13) A corporate strategy may be a growth strategy, a stability strategy, or a renewal strategy. (1point)

True False



Score: 0
Answer(s): True
Feedback: Incorrect. The three major corporate strategies are growth strategies that focus on expansion, stability strategies that focus on maintaining position, and renewal strategies that focus on fixing problems.




14) A company with a stability strategy will plan to dramatically increase market share in a highly competitive market. (1point)

True False



Score: 1
Answer(s): False
Feedback: Correct. A stability strategy would tend to focus on maintaining existing market share, rather than increasing market share.




15) "Build a better mousetrap" is a way of describing a competitive advantage. (1point)

True False



Score: 0
Answer(s): True
Feedback: Incorrect. Having a competitive advantage means that an organization has some kind of edge on its competition with respect to price, quality, the product itself, or some other characteristic.

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