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Strategy and Organizational Politics MCQ

1. Political skill entails:

Using knowledge astutely in a manner that best serves the strategic interest one is seeking to advance

Using knowledge to corner and belittle the opponent

Always claiming to be right

Never losing a battle

Answer

Correct Answer: Using knowledge astutely in a manner that best serves the strategic interest one is seeking to advance

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2. Power games played between organizational sub-groups are often referred to as:

In-fighting

Micro-politics

Face saving

Point scoring

Answer

Correct Answer: Micro-politics

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3. Fligstein found that the background of CEOs in the USA changed in the second half of the 20th century from to _.

Finance to Operations

Operations to Finance

Finance to Marketing

Marketing to Finance

Answer

Correct Answer: Marketing to Finance

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4. Mintzberg identified which of the following as political games played in organizations:

Sponsorship games

Legacy games

Machiavellian games

Sporting games

Answer

Correct Answer: Sponsorship games

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5. In organizations, _____ have strategic interests.

All actors

Only a few actors

Some actors

Only CEOs

Answer

Correct Answer: All actors

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6. A strategic interest emerges when:

There is something at issue, which divides opinions

There is something at issue, on which people take sides

Both a and b

Neither a nor b

Answer

Correct Answer: Both a and b

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7. Interests can be defined in terms of:

The relations between actors

Discursive rationalities

Structural positions

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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8. Organizational politics is the use of _______ to advance self-interest.

Knowledge

Position

Networks

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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9. Which thinker is associated with the political perspective?

Machiavelli

Porter

Sun Tzu

Ansoff

Answer

Correct Answer: Machiavelli

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10. Strategies can go awry because of:

Unforeseen externalities

Organizational politics

Both a and b

Neither a nor b

Answer

Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Strategy and Organizational Politics MCQ

1. Political skill entails:

2. Power games played between organizational sub-groups are often referred to as:

3. Fligstein found that the background of CEOs in the USA changed in the second half of the 20th century from ______ to _______.

4. Mintzberg identified which of the following as political games played in organizations:

5. In organizations, _____ have strategic interests.

6. A strategic interest emerges when:

7. Interests can be defined in terms of:

8. Organizational politics is the use of _______ to advance self-interest.

9. Which thinker is associated with the political perspective?

10. Strategies can go awry because of:

3. Fligstein found that the background of CEOs in the USA changed in the second half of the 20th century from to _.