Exam 4: Strategic Focus For Performance Excellence

"A person's ability to anticipate,envision,maintain flexibility,think strategically,and work with others to initiate changes that will create a viable future for the organization,and its competitive advantage to the organization in this way." This definition applies to:

A strategy is a pattern or plan that integrates an organization's major goals,policies,and action sequences into a cohesive whole.

Which of the following is NOT considered in strategic human resource plans?

In many organizations there are three levels of strategy: Which of the following is NOT ONE of them?

In the policy deployment process,the _____ forms the basis for shorter-term planning.

Which of the following issues is NOT addressed under the second group of questions in the Organizational Profile?

The Organizational Profile provides the "finer picture" of the various organizational parts and thus sets the context for good strategic decisions.

Which of the following is NOT TRUE of how work is organized in the organizational context?

An organization's main goods and services,how it provides them to customers,and its organizational culture are often reflected in formal mission,vision,and values statements.

The term _____ refers to those pressures that exert a decisive influence on an organization's likelihood of future success.

The _____ organization was developed for use in situations where large,complex projects are designed and carried out,such as defense weapons systems or large construction projects.

A firm's _____ guides the development of strategies by different groups within the firm,establishes the context within which daily operating decisions are made,and sets limits on available strategic options.

Describe the three levels of strategic leadership.

Which of the following is a proper description of a Tree Diagram?

The ability of an organization to change in order to deal with increasingly hyper-turbulent environments is referred to as:

Process decision program charts are spreadsheets that graphically display relationships between ideas,activities,or other dimensions in such a way as to provide logical connecting points between each item.

Characteristics of effective strategic leadership include all of the following EXCEPT:

The term management challenges refers to those pressures that exert a decisive influence on an organization's likelihood of future success.

A (n)_____ brings the issues and problems revealed by the affinity diagram and the interrelationship digraph down to the operational planning stage.

All of the following are key factors included in an environmental assessment EXCEPT: