Organizational Leadership
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Organizational Leadership explores the theories, principles, and practices that define effective leadership within various types of organizations. The course examines key leadership styles, the dynamics of team building and motivation, ethical decision-making, conflict resolution, and the development of organizational culture. Students will learn how to lead change, manage diversity, and influence organizational performance through case studies, real-world scenarios, and self-assessment tools. Emphasis is placed on cultivating critical thinking, communication, and strategic planning skills essential for todays adaptive leaders.
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Project Management A Managerial Approach 10th Edition by Jack R. Meredith
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Chapter 1: Projects in Contemporary Organizations
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Q1) The chance that project processes or outcomes will not turn out as planned is called
A)risk
B)projecting
C)effort
D)negative outcome
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is not a likely attribute of quasi-projects?
A)lack of specificity in the project objective
B)a designated team working on the project
C)undefined performance parameters
D)limited scope and budget
Answer: D
Q3) When done properly,project management begins with __________.
A)stakeholder interviews
B)scope definition
C)the initial concept for the project
D)budget estimation
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Strategic Management and Project Selection
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Q1) The underlying premise of the real options approach is that __________.
A)delaying an investment may lead to greater returns or may lead to elimination of marginal projects
B)rushing into an investment more quickly may lead to lower returns or may lead to elimination of marginal projects
C)delaying an investment may lead to increased costs due to delays
D)rushing into an investment more quickly may lead to less risk
Answer: A
Q2) The mastery of the skills required to manage projects competently is referred to in the literature as __________.
A)project management conformance
B)project management maturity
C)project success
D)project portfolio management
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Project Manager
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Q1) When asked,"How do you motivate astronauts?" a representative of NASA responded,"We don't motivate them,but,boy,are we careful about whom we select." Discuss the implications of this statement for project managers seeking to motivate project team members.
Answer: The most effective team members have some common characteristics.Moreover,the issue of motivating people in a project team is closely related to the kind of people who are invited to join the team.For example,when faced with technical problems,will the team members take the initiative to resolve the issue or will the team members seek to delay action by referring the problem back to the functional department? Moreover,because of the potential for conflicting priorities between the function and the project,team members should have the political skills to balance such competing demands,especially when the project team is not assigned full-time to work on a project.If each team member has a problem solving orientation,the team member will seek interdisciplinary collaboration instead of narrowly viewing the problem within a specific discipline.And finally,team members should have the moral courage necessary to work in an open environment where problems are identified and resolved.
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Chapter 4: Managing Conflict and the Art of Negotiation
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Q1) Which one of the following choices was not identified by the authors as one of the reasons why organizations enter into partnership arrangements with each other?
A)Avoidance of litigation
B)Diversification of technical risk
C)Reducing internal conflict
D)Avoidance of capital investment
Q2) Partnering is an attempt to __________ the risk associated with subcontracting.
A)mitigate
B)increase
C)absorb
D)allow
Q3) During the main program phases of the project lifecycle,the conflict intensity is the greatest with respect to __________.
A)cost
B)schedules
C)scope
D)quality
Q4) Describe the multistep process for building partnered projects.
Q5) List and describe the five strategies people use to deal with conflict.
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Chapter 5: The Project in the Organizational Structure
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Q1) The firm or organization within which the project is being conducted is known as the
A)parent organization
B)consulting firm
C)project team
D)stakeholder company
Q2) Project priorities are more of a concern in the __________ stages of the project life cycle.
A)earlier
B)later
C)middle
D)final
Q3) A common objective of an organization's PMO is often created by organizations to
A)establish consistent project management standards and methods
B)deal with technological obsolescence
C)train process managers
D)administer application software
Q4) Identify the major reasons for the rapid growth of project-oriented organizations.
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Chapter 6: Activity Planning: Traditional and Agile
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Q1) In an agile project,teams are given several requirements but only deal with one at a time,with each iteration being referred to as a __________.
A)sprint
B)deliverable
C)WBS
D)control
Q2) The __________ of a project includes the objectives of the project as well as the time and cost required to complete the project to the customer's satisfaction.
A)scope
B)change order
C)outcome
D)purpose
Q3) Identify two objections commonly raised by marketing organizations against the early participation by engineering and manufacturing in the selling process to external customers.Explain how you would counter these objections.
Q4) Describe how a risk management plan is developed.
Q5) Describe the general steps recommended by the authors for designing and using the WBS.
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Chapter 7: Budgeting and Risk Management
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Q1) Suppose that a person requires eight hours to complete a work element on the first attempt.That person has a learning rate of 90 percent for this work element.This person should require __________ hours to complete this work element on the fourth attempt.
A)5.83
B)6.48
C)7.2
D)8.8
Q2) The pattern of deviations in cost and usage used for exception reporting to management is called __________.
A)simulations
B)assumptions
C)variances
D)summaries
Q3) Overhead costs are all of the following except which one?
A)Generally within the project manager's control
B)Arbitrary
C)Source of annoyance and frustration
D)A amount that is unique to the firm
Q4) Describe the bottom-up budgeting process.
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Chapter 8: Scheduling
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Q1) Explain why it is important to evaluate non-critical paths that possess large variances and / or path times that are close to critical in duration.
Q2) When using the beta distribution,the denominator of the formula for standard deviation should ________.
A)be approximately one-sixth of its range.
B)be adjusted by converting the range into the correct statistical variance
C)be adjusted by converting the range into the correct z-score value
D)be adjusted by converting the range into 50 percent of the mean
Q3) The series of connected activities (or intermediate events)between any two events in a network is called __________.
A)path
B)node
C)chart
D)arc
Q4) __________ law suggests that work expands to fill the allotted time.
A)Parkinson's
B)Murphy's
C)Brooks'
D)Federal
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Chapter 9: Resource Allocation
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Q1) If a predecessor activity finishes early,will the following activity start early? Why?
Q2) __________ are tasks that logically follow a particular task in time.
A)Successor
B)Strays
C)Predecessors
D)Critical
Q3) The two fundamental approaches to constrained allocation problems are
A)heuristic approaches and rules of thumb
B)linear programming approaches and optimization models
C)heuristic approaches and optimization models
D)goal programming and trial and error
Q4) When we change technology,we may also be changing the level of __________ in carrying out the activity.
A)risk
B)money
C)time
D)all of the above
Q5) Describe the basic procedure for resource leveling.
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Chapter 10: Monitoring and Information Systems
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Q1) An appropriate and common secondary user for monitoring includes __________.
A)auditing,learning from mistakes,and reporting progress and status
B)exercising effective control over the project
C)evaluating current status of the project
D)fixing the blame when things go wrong
Q2) ETC + AC = __________.
A)BAC
B)EAC
C)SPI
D)CPI
Q3) Conceptually,EAC represents the amount spent to date plus __________.
A)the delay costs
B)BAC
C)CV
D)ETC
Q4) Describe the three common difficulties in designing project reports.
Q5) List the four conventions used to aid in estimating percent completion.
Q6) Identify some of the benefits when timely reports are delivered to the proper people by the project management information system.
Q7) Identify the main complaints associated with meetings.
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Chapter 11: Project Control
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Q1) In order to control creative projects the project manager must adopt one or some combination of three general approaches to the problem.Which of the following is not one of these approaches?
A)control of input resources
B)creativity check
C)process review
D)personnel reassignments
Q2) A person with organizational clout who takes on personal responsibility for the successful completion of a project for the organization is referred to as a(n)__________.
A)champion
B)leader
C)program manager
D)campaigner
Q3) The culmination of the postcontrol report is a set of recommendations covering what?
A)Everything that went wrong with the project
B)Who was at fault for the errors in the project
C)How the project performed relative to the initial project plan
D)The ways that future projects can be improved
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Chapter 12: Project Auditing
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Q1) The stated project objectives,including funder satisfaction,are part of the project's __________ goals
A)indirect
B)ancillary
C)secondary
D)direct
Q2) __________ is a measure of the degree to which the output of a system conforms to pre-specified characteristics.
A)Scope
B)Quality
C)Cost
D)Schedule
Q3) This of an audit report contains a description of the project to provide a framework of understanding for the reader.
A)Introduction
B)Current status
C)Future project status
D)Critical management issues
Q4) Discuss the differences between a project audit and a financial audit.
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Chapter 13: Project Closure and Benefits Realization
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Q1) Most studies have shown that the factors associated with project success or failure
A)are similar across different industries and the various types of projects
B)are different across different industries and the various types of projects
C)are similar across different industries but different for the various types of projects
D)are different across different industries but similar for the various types of projects
Q2) The administrative performance of the final report __________.
A)analyzes the impact of administrative structure on the project
B)offers solutions to technical problems that may have occurred
C)reviews the administrative practices used during the project
D)compares what the project achieved with what it aimed for
Q3) The __________ of the final project report contains a review of administrative practices.
A)project performance
B)administrative performance
C)organizational structure
D)personnel suggestions
Q4) Discuss the conditions where it can be said that a project has been closed.
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