1)
Effective strategy formulation can usually guarantee successful strategy
implementation.
Answer: FALSE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 213
Objective: 7.01 Explain why strategy implementation is
more difficult than strategy formulation.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
2)
Strategy formulation is the managing of forces during the action, whereas
strategy implementation is the positioning of forces before the action.
Answer: FALSE
Diff:
1 Page Ref: 213
Objective: 7.01 Explain why strategy implementation is
more difficult than strategy formulation.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
3)
Strategy formulation requires coordination among a few individuals, but
strategy implementation requires coordination among many.
Answer: TRUE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 213
Objective: 7.01 Explain why strategy implementation is
more difficult than strategy formulation.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
4)
It is always easier to say you are going to do something (strategy formulation)
than to actually do it (strategy implementation).
Answer: TRUE
Diff:
1 Page Ref: 213
Objective: 7.01 Explain why strategy implementation is
more difficult than strategy formulation.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
5)
Unlike strategy formulation, strategy implementation varies considerably among
different types and sizes of organizations.
Answer: TRUE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 214
Objective: 7.01 Explain why strategy implementation is
more difficult than strategy formulation.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
6)
A bottom-up flow of communication is essential for developing top-down support.
Answer: FALSE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 214
AACSB: Reflective Thinking Skills
Objective: 7.01 Explain why strategy implementation is
more difficult than strategy formulation.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
7)
Annual objectives are key components in the strategic-management process
because they dictate how resources will be allocated.
Answer: TRUE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 219
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning Outcome: Discuss best practices for strategy
implementation
8)
Horizontal consistency is more important than vertical consistency in
developing annual objectives.
Answer: FALSE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 216
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
9)
Undesirable conduct such as distorting the records can be a result of
overemphasis on achieving objectives.
Answer: TRUE
Diff:
1 Page Ref: 217
AACSB: Ethical Understanding and Reasoning Abilities
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
10)
Policies refer to specific guidelines, methods, procedures, rules, forms, and
administrative practices established to support and encourage work toward
stated goals.
Answer: TRUE
Diff:
1 Page Ref: 217
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual objectives
and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies to be
implemented.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
11)
Strategies clarify what can and cannot be done in pursuit of an organization's
objectives.
Answer: FALSE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 217
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
12)
Not allocating resources according to the priorities indicated by approved
objectives is detrimental to the strategic-management process.
Answer: TRUE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 219
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
13)
Four types of resources that can be used to achieve desired objectives are
financial, physical, human, and technological.
Answer: TRUE
Diff:
1 Page Ref: 219
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning Outcome: Discuss best practices for strategy
implementation
14)
Avoidance, defusion, and confrontation are the classifications for the various
types of conflict that can arise in organizations.
Answer: FALSE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 219
AACSB: Communication Abilities
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
15)
Well-run organizations are able to completely avoid conflict.
Answer: FALSE
Diff:
3 Page Ref: 219
AACSB: Communication Abilities
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
16)
In the context of conflict management and resolution, ignoring the problem in
the hopes that the conflict will resolve itself is classified as a defusion
technique.
Answer: FALSE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 219
AACSB: Communication Abilities
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
17)
Holding a meeting at which conflicting parties present their views and work
through their differences is part of the defusion technique of managing
conflict.
Answer: FALSE
Diff:
3 Page Ref: 220
AACSB: Communication Abilities
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
18)
Exchanging members of conflicting parties so each can gain an appreciation of
the other's point of view exemplifies a confrontation approach.
Answer: TRUE
Diff:
1 Page Ref: 220
AACSB: Communication Abilities
Objective: 7.02 Discuss the importance of annual
objectives and policies in achieving organizational commitment for strategies
to be implemented.
Learning
Outcome: Discuss best practices for
strategy implementation
19)
Medium-sized firms tend to be divisionally structured, whereas large firms tend
to use an SBU (strategic business unit) or matrix structure.
Answer: TRUE
Diff:
2 Page Ref: 220
Objective: 7.03 Explain why organizational structure is
so important in strategy implementation.
Learning Outcome: Compare and contrast approaches to
organizational structure
20)
Tasks and activities are grouped together by business function in a divisional
organizational structure.
Answer: FALSE
Diff:
1 Page Ref: 221-222
Objective: 7.03 Explain why organizational structure is
so important in strategy implementation.
Learning
Outcome: Compare and contrast approaches
to organizational structure
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