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‘A person may exert power on the basis of their formal authority or status’
Which of the French and Raven sources of power is being described here?
If the speed of change was incremental, and the extent of change was realignment, what single term might we use to describe this change?
It is said that society is undergoing the ‘fourth industrial revolution’. Which description most close-ly defines this idea?
Peter Scholtes identified ten behaviours (have you noticed ho it's always ten, never nine or eleven?)which commonly create problems in teams. Which are the three out of the four shown, which are genuine Scholte terms to describe these undesirable behaviours?
Which of the following departments would be both internal customers and internal suppliers of an organisational procurement function? Select all that apply.
Giving employees the right to make modest decisions in an independent and self-directing way, on behalf of the organisation. Trusting employees to do the right thing, for example, when faced with a customer complaint.
‘Processes can be improved simply by organising the work in a way that means people have to move around less’. Which ‘waste’ is being described here?
Responsibilities within a procurement function can be split into strategic, tactical or operational. Which of the following would usually be seen as operational? Choose two.
According to CIPS, procurement and supply management for CIPS members is a(n) (choose best fit):
An employee responsible for managing both warehousing and transport in an organisation would best be described as a:
Continuous improvement – making small changes in operations and activities in a never-ending way – is called in Japanese:
‘A person who is reliable in seeing a task through to the end’.
Which of the Belbin team roles is being described here?
(An easy one – perhaps too easy)
‘The individual does not believe that the change is really happening and looks for evidence that it is not true’. Which stage of the Kubler-Ross model does this describe?
R Meredith Belbin made a distinction in his work between 'solo leaders', who were kind-of historic leaders; and 'team leaders' who are seen as being leaders for modern times, or of the future.
From the list shown, select the one answer which represents the solo leader, rather than the team leader.
Thinking of the cultural web, which of the following refers to events or routines which take place, and really matter to the people involved?
According to CIPS, which of the following are not internal stakeholders? Select one.
Which one of the following is unlikely to appear in an organisational procurement manual?
Thinking about the PESTEL model, under which heading would ageing society most readily fall?
A small group of workers, under the leadership of a supervisor, seeking to make constructive practi-cal small changes to bring about operational improvement in the workplace.
Thinking of Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s work, which of the following terms describes a leader @who is not a dictator, but nonetheless makes the decisions. The team depends heavily on the lead-er, and what the leader says'.