What do you call the understanding of a dominant culture before choosing a suitable control system? *
a) Market control
b) Bureaucratic control
c) Clan control
d) People control
When a manager monitors the work performance of workers in his department to determine if the quality of their work is 'up to standard', this manager is engaging in which function? *
a) Planning
b) Controlling
c) Organizing
d) Leading
What are the main characteristics of an effective control system? *
a) Flexibility, accuracy, timeliness and objectivity
b) Flexibility, measurability, timeliness and objectivity
c) Flexibility, accuracy, relevance and objectivity
d) Flexibility, accuracy, timeliness and relevance
Preliminary controls are necessary because *
a) they are too early to be undertaken.
b) they are too late to be undertaken.
c) they seek to pre-empt future problems
d) it can be done with very little resources
Performance Appraisals; Training Needs Assessments and Disciplinary Procedures are aspects of: *
a) Marketing Controls
b) Financial Controls
c) IT Controls
d) HR Controls
What is premise control based on? *
a) Buildings
b) People
c) Resources
d) Assumptions
Controls that occur during the production process are known as *
a) Alongside Controls
b) Concurrent Controls
c) Contextual Controls
d) Compact Controls
The following are a type of control measure except *
a) Staff Appraisal and Annual Performance Reviews
b) Financial audits & formal investigations
c) Liquidity and Profitability Ratios
d) Monitoring Informal group chats & Staff out-of-work lifestyles.
What is the first step in a control process? *
a) Allocate resources
b) Choose key personnel for the task
c) Select a strategy
d) Set standards
What is the weakest form of control? *
a) Pre-control
b) Simultaneous control
c) Post-control
d) Duel control​