Organizational Behavior

Practice Exam Questions - Bank 6

1. According to Pope, a well-planned and smartly-directed safety function will get things done by, with and through: (Pope, 81)

a. solid enforcement
b. other managers
c. engineering
d. employees

2. According to Pope, a safety specialist's role with management becomes that of a: (Pope, 81)

a. inspector
b. internal auditor
c. reviewer
d. counselor

3. According to Pope, a safety specialist's job is to: (Pope, 81)

a. treat management as customers
b. evaluate the quality of management
c. advise managers
d. all of the above

4. According to Pope, all of the following reasons explain why employees and first-line supervisors are NOT the safety specialist's only customers? (Pope, 81)

a. they do not provide budgets for safety activities
b. they do not control safety specialist salaries
c. they do not receive services from safety specialists
d. they do not dictate the quality of amount of safety assistance

5. According to Pope, to best obtain top management support, safety specialists must give answers to questions that: (Pope, 82)

a. do not reflect pious pontification
b. are couched in their language and interests
c. are supported by positive reasoning
d. all of the above

6. According to Pope, safety management is successful when: (Pope, 20)

a. decision-making is mutually binding
b. decision-making is participatory
c. information is widely disseminated
d. all of the above

7. Mintzberg (1981) provides an organizational classification that may be useful in application to occupational safety and health. Which of the following is not one of Mintzberg's five classifications? (NSC, OSH, 276)

a. simple structures
b. complex structures
c. machine bureaucracies
d. professional bureaucracies

8. Mintzberg (1981) provides an organizational classification that may be useful in application to occupational safety and health. Which of the following is not one of Mintzberg's five classifications? (NSC, OSH, 276)

a. simple structures
b. divisional forms
c. adhocracies
d. matrix structures

9. According to Mintzberg this organizational structure, common in small manufacturing operations, uses direct supervisors and a top person who orchestrates the activities of others: (NSC, OSH, 276)

a. simple structure
b. divisional form
c. adhocracy
d. machine bureaucracy

10. According to Mintzberg this organizational structure, classically seen in fast food operations, is characterized by work coordinated through rules, procedures and technology: (NSC, OSH, 276)

a. simple structure
b. divisional form
c. adhocracy
d. machine bureaucracy

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