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_____ control is implemented during the output stage of the system process.
a. Damage
b. Rework
c. Concurrent
d. Preliminary
Question 2
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_____ involves the allocation of organisational resources to relevant departments or individuals and the definition of tasks, roles and
responsibilities to achieve organisational goals.
a. Planning
b. Organising
c. Leading
d. Controlling
Question 3
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Neflix’s global growth in 2017 and 2018 is an example of a __________ corporate growth strategy.
a. Product development
b. Conglomerate diversification
c. Concentration growth
d. Market development
_____ control govern behaviour through accepted patterns of action rather than written policies and procedures – it uses values and beliefs
which are established standards.
a. Bureaucratic
b. Behaviour
c. Normative
d. Concertive
Question 5
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_____ is an acronym for the grouping of the world’s leading emerging economies, which promotes commercial, political and cultural
cooperation between these counties.
a. BRICS
b. UNGC
c. BREXIT
d. UN
Question 6
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Mark Gavill is ________ manager and will mainly focus on ________
a. an intermediate; communicating goals to lower level managers
b. a middle; continually monitoring environmental influences
c. a lower; productivity and output
d. a top; overall strategies
Question 7
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______ control is a top-down type of control whereby managers use organisational rules, policies, hierarchy of authority, written
documentation, rewards and other formal mechanisms to assess performance and reward or punish employees for compliance or
noncompliance.
a. Normative
b. Bureaucratic
c. Concertive
d. Self-
The third step in the control process is to _____.
a. take corrective action
b. reward employees
c. measure deviations
d. set performance standards
Question 9
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Consider the following list of plans to answer the question:
1 An organisation designs a diversity programme to recruit and hire a more diverse workforce
2 A local university launches a project to build a new laboratory for their geology students
3 The human resource budget for the 2021 financial year of the local municipality is R5.6 billion
4 It is the policy of the manufacturing organisation to hire workers from the local community
5 The purchasing rule states the percentage of supplies that can be purchased from a single supplier
Which of the plans listed is/are examples of single-use plans?
Having content managers report to Gavill gives him _______ speaking to the _______.
a. informal authority; decentralisation of authority
b. formal authority; scope of authority
c. line authority; centralisation of authority
d. staff authority; his expertise in the company
Question 12
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According to Blake and Mouton’s leadership grid Mrs Greeves follows _______ management approach.
a. a middle-of-the-road
b. a country club
c. an impoverished
d. a team
Question 13
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_____ are measures of performance that provide information that is directly relevant to what is being controlled.
a. Standards
b. Goals
c. Performance indicators
d. Standard operating procedures
Question 14
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Which one of the following is regarded as an internal stakeholder of an organisation?
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