QUESTION 56 Bryan Porter is the new marketing director of a regional bakery comp
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QUESTION 56
Bryan Porter is the new marketing director of a regional bakery company. As a member of management, Bryan is hoping to be judged on his effectiveness as a role model and mentor to his employees. He is eager to develop social relations among co-workers and broaden his network of colleagues within the organization. What type of organizational culture would least satisfy Bryan?
bureaucratic
market
entrepreneurial
all of the above
1 points
QUESTION 57
To be a team, the members must have all of the following characteristics except __________.
formal leadership
shared goals
communication
collaboration
1 points
QUESTION 58
Let's assume Domino's Pizza threatened to bake its own bread, grow its own tomatoes, and raise its own hogs (as a source for sausage and pepperoni) to get lower prices and better quality for its inputs. This would represent __________ integration.
backward
forward
vertical
horizontal
1 points
QUESTION 59
Jarrod Tracy is a structural engineer for Bechtel. A job foreman asked Jarrod about the heat and air equipment being delivered to the site but Jarrod knew nothing about it because Bechtel is large and requires a high level of __________.
delegation
specialization
integration
hierarchy
1 points
QUESTION 60
Life insurance underwriters cannot determine which of their clients will die this year. However, their business success depends upon their ability to predict how many of those clients will die, based on population death rates in categories of age, gender, etc. Life insurance companies are using __________ to make their decisions about whom to insure and the premiums to charge.
uncertainty
alternative risk
objective probabilities
subjective probabilities
bureaucratic
market
entrepreneurial
all of the above
Explanation / Answer
56: Bueracratic:
This kind of organisational culture is very heirarchy based and the interaction between senior management and employees are very formal. The culture is basically task oriented and with less personal interaction. Thus Bryan wont get satisfied by with such organisation culture as he would like to mentor employees and beleive in personal level interaction.
57:Formal leadership
This results in limited interaction and will make every thing very formal which may results in less colloboration and interaction.
58:Backward integration
Here Dominoz Pizza company moving one stepo back towards their supplychain to procure their raw materials for their products.
59:Specialisation
This results in too much of internal department and functions which may results kn less information across the various verticles.
60:Objective probability
This works based on the records of the data ( which can be historical or live) and take decision based on the probability of the objectives