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This document contains 30 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of management theories and concepts. The questions cover topics such as motivation theories, management skills, project management techniques including CPM and PERT, authority in organizations, committees, and human resources processes like staffing and forecasting. The correct answer is provided for each question.

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Engineering Management Elks Erer

This document contains 30 multiple choice questions testing knowledge of management theories and concepts. The questions cover topics such as motivation theories, management skills, project management techniques including CPM and PERT, authority in organizations, committees, and human resources processes like staffing and forecasting. The correct answer is provided for each question.

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1. Which of the following is not a Learned Needs theory?

A. Need for Achievement


for Courage

B. Need for Power

C. Need for affiliation

D. Need

2. Employees are paid based on their relative contribution to the firm for some of
their compensation
A. Merit pay

B. Bonus

C. Advance salary

D. None of the above

3. Which of the following is an example of Fou - Drive Theory Motivation?


A. Drive to acquire

B. Drive to bond

C. Drive to learn

D. All of the above

4. This refers to the ability to work with, understand and motivate other people; the
way the individual perceives his superiors, equals, and subordinates, and the way he
behaves subsequently.
A. Technical skill

B. Conceptual skill

C. Human Skill

D. Managerial skill

5. It implies an understanding of proficiency in a specific kind of activity, particularly


one involving methods, processes, procedures or techniques.
A. Human skill

B. Managerial skill

C. Conceptual Skill

D. Technical skill

6. This skill involves the ability to see the enterprise as a whole


A. Technical skill

B. Managerial skill

C. Human Skill

D. Conceptual skill

7. The process of successfully influencing the activities of a group towards the


achievement of a common goal.
A. Background skills

B. Interpersonal skills

C. Human skill

D. Technical skill

8. Identifying appropriate evidence and weighing up that evidence to make a choice


A. Delegation

B. Decision making

C. Planning

D. Leading

9. Taking responsibility for determining when to ask someone else to make a decision
or carry out a task.
A. Collaboration

B. Decision making

C. Delegation

D. Motivating others

10. Generating enthusiasm and energy by being positive focusing on finding


solutions and maintaining a positive altitude even when things are not going well.
A. Delegation

B. Motivating others

C. Collaboration

D. Taking responsibility

11. Generating enthusiasm and energy by being positive, focusing on finding


solutions and maintaining a positive altitude even when things are not going well.

A. Delegation

B. Motivating others

C. Collaboration

D. Taking responsibility

12. Series of changes which occur as a group of individuals form into a cohesive and
effective operating unit.
A. Managerial skill

B. Technical skill

C. Group skill

D. None of the above

13. What describes how to determine the number of service unit that will minimize
both customers waiting time and cost of service?
A. Queuing theory

B. Network model

C. Sampling theory

D. Waterfall model

14. What refers to the rational way to conceptualize, analyze and solve problems in
situations involving limited information about the decision environment?
A. Sampling theory

B. Queuing theory

C. Decision theory

D. Simulation

15. What is the quantitative technique where samples of population are statistically
determined to be used for a number of processes, such as quality control and
marketing research?
A. Sampling theory B. Poissons distribution C. Statistical decision theory D. Selfactualization needs
16. What refers to the needs of the employees for food, drinks and rest?
A. Physiological needs
actualization needs

B. Security needs

C. Esteem needs

D. Self-

17. What technique is best suited for projects that contain many repetitions of some
standard activities?
A. Benchmark job techniques
Non-modular technique

B. Parametric technique C. Modular technique D.

18. Who is responsible for ensuring that the project is completed successfully as
measured by time, cost, performance and stakeholder satisfaction?
A. Functional manager
supervisor

B. Project manager

C. Chief engineer

D. Department

19. Who is responsible for running a department so that all his customers are served
efficiently and effectively?
A. Area manager

B. Sales manager

C. Functional manager

D. Project manager

20. What is the most widely used chart in management of scheduling an controlling of
projects?

A. PERT

B. CPM

C. Gant chart

D. Smith chart

21. What network model enables engineer managers to schedule, monitor, and
control large and complex projects by using only one time factor per activity?
A. Forecasting

B. CPM

C. PERT

D. Waterfall model

22. What network model enables engineer managers to schedule, monitor, and
control large and complex projects by employing three time estimate for each
activity?
A. Forecasting

B. CPM

C. PERT

D. Life Cycle model

23. Refers to a managers right to tell subordinates what to do and then see that
they do it.
A. Line authority

B. Staff authority

C. Functional authority

D. Head authority

24. A staff specialists right to give advice to a superior.


A. Line authority

B. Staff authority

C. Functional authority

D. Head authority

25. A specialists right to oversee lower level personnel involved in that specialty,
regardless of where the personnel are in the organization.
A. Line authority

B. Staff authority

C. Functional authority

D. Head authority

26. A committee created for a short-term purpose and have a limited life.
A. Ad hoc committee
committee

B. Standing committee

C. Sinking committee

D. Midget

27. A permanent committee that deals with the issues on an ongoing basis.
A. Ad hoc committee
committee

B. Standing committee

C. Sinking committee

D. Midget

28. Defined as the management function that determines human resource needs,
recruits, selects, trains, and develop human resources for jobs created by an
organization.
A. Resourcing

B. Recruitment

C. Hiring

D. Staffing

29. An assessment of future human resource needs in relation to the current


capabilities of the organization
A. Forecasting

B. Control

C. Programming

D. Recruitment

30. Refers to translation of the forecasted human resource needs to personnel


objectives and goals
A. Forecasting
1. D
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. D
6. D
7. B
8. B
9. C
10. B
11. C
12. C
13. A
14. C
15. A
16. A
17. A
18. B
19. C
20. C
21. B
22. C
23. A
24. B

B. Control

C. Programming

D. Recruitment

25. C
26. A
27. B
28. D
29. A
30. C

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