Deck 9: Strategic Management in the Public Sector

Question 1

The statement of strategic planning objectives calls for

A) self-actualization, survival, safety, esteem, love, organizational requirement.
B) succinct, directional, time-limited, and measurable objectives.
C) assessment, decision making, evaluation.
D) inputs, transformation, outputs.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Strategy refers to the use of resources to gain an objective.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Peter Drucker introduced the term _______________ into organizational management

A) Total Quality Management.
B) Management by Objectives.
C) The Law of the Situation.
D) Zero-Based Budgeting

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The Bernie Madoff scandal involved the failure of which of the following?

A) Securities and Exchange Commission
B) Environmental Protection Agency
C) Federal Communications Commission
D) North American Free Trade Agreement

Question 5

An organization's ______ refers to the time of organizational planning beyond which the future is considered uncertain, or unimportant to waste time upon.

A) planning horizon
B) strategic management
C) game theory
D) benchmark

Question 6

Ben Bernanke is the Chairman of the "Fed." He and his panel of governors

A) Regulate monetary policy in the U.S.
B) Work for the Federal Reserve Bank
C) Are extremely powerful public bureaucrats
D) All of the above.

Question 7

Short term budgeting continues to reinforce long-term policy decisions.

Question 8

Taxes on activities deemed not good for the individual and society are called

A) Luxury taxes
B) Sin taxes
C) Indulgence taxes
D) Progressive taxes

Question 9

The Budget Analyst in the City of El Centro is asked to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the City Manager's office. He will use _____________ to do this:

A) Accounting measures based on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
B) best practices, benchmarking, and staging.
C) best practices, benchmarking, and management scorecards.
D) None of the above.

Question 10

Dixie Smith is an Internist (Medical Doctor) in the City of Redlands. She says she has to sit for an exam to continue her certification as an M.D. You know that this certification will be done by:

A) The American Medical Association
B) The county government.
C) State of California
D) None of the above.

Question 11

The SWOT analysis is not an environmental analysis.

Question 12

As organizational environment moves from stable to turbulent, H. Igor Ansoff argues that capability moves from "custodial" to "entrepreneurial."

Question 13

Which of the following are examples of government regulation?

A) Zoning
B) Iron triangle
C) building codes
D) a and c

Question 14

A process that systematically compares work processes of competitors or with best practices in an industry is called

A) benchmarking.
B) appraising.
C) estimating.
D) cost-benefit analysis.

Question 15

A SWOT analysis

A) Is a tool to assess organizational fit with its internal and external environments.
B) Strengths & weaknesses look at an organization's internal resources and capabilities
C) Opportunities & threats look to the opportunistic and predatory aspects from the outside that are possible threats to an organization's survival.
D) All of the above

Question 16

Because the 10^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reserves powers for the states:

A) The take on important regulatory functions
B) Play preeminent roles in policy areas
C) A and b
D) None of the above.

Question 17

The Food and Drug Administration is housed in which cabinet office:

A) Homeland Security
B) Health & Human Services
C) Treasury
D) None of the above.

Question 18

Public budgeting is resistant to long-term planning. The annual nature of public budgets reinforces, this.

Question 19

The Government Performance Results Act mandates that executive agencies submit their strategic plans to the members of the President's cabinet for approval.

Question 20

Your mother-in-law just bought a property in an Euclidean zoned area. This means all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Allows mother-in-law apartments in a single family home.
B) Her local government has a regulation that keeps out apartments in her residence area
C) Her local government has a regulation that keeps out businesses her residence area
D) Is the kind of zoning adopted by Euclid, Ohio.

Question 21

In the Supreme Court decision Ambler Realty Co, v. Village of Euclid (1964) the court upheld the legality of zoning.

Question 22

A priority interest for when the Barack Obama administration came to office in 2009, was to make management scorecards responsive to the reporting of sustainability and and renewal energy development.

Question 23

Your parents live in San Bernardino county and complain that when they were building their backyard swimming pool their local government had a say in what they could and could not do. They protest this as an infringement of their rights, but the County Commission determines that this "interference" falls into the realm of legitimate local government regulation. Is this true or false?

Question 24

The Supreme Court's decision in US v. Florida East Coast Railway (1973) held that formal rulemaking need only be followed when an enabling statute requires an agency hearing prior to rule formulation.