Global strategic management mcq

SET#1 QUESTIONS

1. (p. 3) Which of the following is an element of a firm's remote external environment?

A. Competition

B. Suppliers

C. Government agencies

D. Economic and social conditions

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 1

2. (p. 3) Which of the following is NOT a part of a firm's immediate external environment?

A. Technological development

B. Competitors

C. Suppliers

D. Government agencies

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 1

3. (p. 3) The immediate external environment includes:

A. Competitors

B. S. B. U. s

C. Divisions

D. Management

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 1

4. (p. 3) 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.

A. Remote external environment

B. Task environment

C. Operating environment

D. Internal environment

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 1

5. (p. 3) The set of decisions and actions resulting in the formulation and implementation of plans designed to achieve a company's objectives is defined as:

A. Strategic policy

B. Business policy

C. Strategic management

D. Tactics

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 2

6. (p. 3) Strategic management compromises nine critical tasks. Which of the following is NOT one of the tasks?

A. Development of annual objectives compatible with grand strategies

B. Assessment of the company's external environment

C. Selection of a particular set of long-term objectives and grand strategies

D. Evaluate the success of the strategic process

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 2

7. (p. 4) Strategic management involves the _____, directing, _____ and controlling of a company's strategy-related decisions and actions.

A. Financing; marketing

B. Planning; financing

C. Marketing; planning

D. Planning; organizing

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 2

8. (p.4) Large-scale, future-oriented plans, for interacting with the competitive environment to achieve company objectives refers to its

A. Strategy

B. Goals

C. Competitive analysis

D. Dynamic policies

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 2

9. (p. 4) A strategy is a company's

A. Game plan

B. Pricing policy

C. Value statement

D. Long-term objective

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 2

10. (p. 4) A(n) _____ reflects a company's awareness of how, when and where is should compete, against whom it should compete and for what purpose it should compete.

A. Vision

B. Organizational structure

C. Strategy

D. Long-term objective

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 2

11. (p. 4) Strategic issues require which level of management decisions?

A. Operative

B. Top

C. Front-line

D. Middle

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 2

12. (p. 5) Strategic decisions ostensibly commit the firm for

A. 1-2 years

B. The short term

C. 3-4 years

D. A long time, typically five years

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 2

13. (p. 4-5) Some business decisions are strategic and therefore deserve strategic management attention. Which of the following is one of the six strategic issue dimensions?

A. Requires front-line employee decisions

B. Is not likely to have a significant impact on long-term prosperity of the firm

C. Necessitates considering factors in the firm's external environment

D. Is spontaneous

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 3

14. (p. 5) Which of the following applies to strategic issues?

A. Consider only the firm's internal environment

B. Are future oriented

C. Concern allocation of insignificant amounts of company resources

D. Do not have long-term impact on the firm's prosperity

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 3

15. (p. 5) Strategic decisions are based on what managers _____, rather than on what they _____.

A. Forecast; know

B. React to; anticipate

C. Know; forecast

D. Compromise with; analyze

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: 3

16. (p. 5) In a turbulent and competitive free enterprise environment, a firm will succeed only if it takes a(n) ____ stance towards change.

A. Reactive

B. Anti-regulatory or anti-government

C. Proactive

D. Vision and not mission

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 3

17. (p. 6) Typically how many strategic decision levels are in the corporate decision-making hierarchy?

A. 5 or more

B. 4

C. 3

D. 2

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 4

18. (p. 6) To a large extent, attitudes at the corporate level reflect the concerns of

A. Stockholders and society at large

B. Top managers

C. The CEO

D. The federal government

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 4

19. (p. 6) The top of the decision-making hierarchy comprises all of these EXCEPT

A. Board of directors

B. Front-line managers

C. The CEO

D. Administrative officers

Difficulty: Easy

Learning Objective: 4

20. (p. 6) In a multi-business firm, ______ -level executives determine the businesses in which the firm should be involved.

A. Business

B. Functional

C. Corporate

D. Operative

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 4

21. (p. 6) At Office Supply, Inc., ____ -level managers would be responsible for determining whether the company should be involved in home furnishings or electronic appliance businesses, where as ____ -level managers would be responsible for determining how the firm will compete in the selected product-market arena.

A. Business; corporate

B. Corporate; functional

C. Functional; business

D. Corporate; business

Difficulty: Hard

Learning Objective: 4

22. (p. 6) In the middle of the decision-making hierarchy is the _____ level.

A. Corporate

B. Functional

C. Business

D. Strategic

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 4

23. (p. 6) Who determines the basis on which a company can compete in the selected product-market arena?

A. Functional-level strategic managers

B. Corporate-level strategic managers

C. Business-level strategic managers

D. Operational managers supervising operative

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 4

24. (p. 6) Which of these managers tries to identify and secure the most profitable and promising market segment?

A. Functional managers

B. Corporate managers

C. Business managers

D. Operative

Difficulty: Medium

Learning Objective: 4

25. (p. 6) The functional level of decision making is characterized by:

A. The board of directors deriving corporate goals

B. Managers of product, geographic and functional areas

C. The CEO developing a company profile

D. Business managers interpreting the mission into operational objectives