BUSI 400 CH. 7 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025/2026
Annual objectives - ANS desired milestones an organization needs to achieve to ensure
successful strategy implementation
1. They represent the basis for allocating resources
2. They are a primary mechanism for evaluating managers
3. They enable effective monitoring of progress toward achieving long-term objectives
4. They establish organisational, divisional, and departmental priorities
5. They are essential for keeping a strategic plan on track - ANS Reasons Annual Objectives
are essential for strategy implementation
Organizational Policies - ANS Specific guidelines, methods, procedures, rules, forms, and
administrative practices established to support and encourage work toward state goals.
1. Financial resources
2. Physical resources
3. Human resources
4. Technological resources - ANS 4 types of resources that can be used to achieve desired
objectives
Resource Allocation - ANS Can be defined as distributing an organization's "assets" across
products, regions, and segments according to priorities established by annual objectives
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, Conflict - ANS a disagreement between two or more parties on one or more issues
Avoidance
Defusion
Confrontation - ANS Different categories for managing and resolving conflict
Avoidance - ANS actions such as ignoring the problem in hopes that the conflict will resolve
conflict will resolve itself or physically separating the conflicting individual
Defusion - ANS playing down differences between conflicting parties while accentuating
similarities and common interests
Confrontation - ANS exchanging members of conflicting parties so that each can gain an
appreciation of the other's point of view or holding a meeting at which conflicting parties
present their views and work through their differences
Strategic Business Unit Structure - ANS usually seen in large firms - • Groups similar divisions
into delegates authority for each unto to a senior executive who reports directly to the CEO
Functional Structure
Divisional Structure
Strategic Business Unit Structure
Matrix Structure - ANS Types of Organizational Structure
Functional Structure - ANS Most widely used structure - groups tasks and activities by
business function i.e marketing, operations, finance
Forces accountability to the top
Minimizes career development opportunities
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ANSWERS GRADED A+ 2025/2026
Annual objectives - ANS desired milestones an organization needs to achieve to ensure
successful strategy implementation
1. They represent the basis for allocating resources
2. They are a primary mechanism for evaluating managers
3. They enable effective monitoring of progress toward achieving long-term objectives
4. They establish organisational, divisional, and departmental priorities
5. They are essential for keeping a strategic plan on track - ANS Reasons Annual Objectives
are essential for strategy implementation
Organizational Policies - ANS Specific guidelines, methods, procedures, rules, forms, and
administrative practices established to support and encourage work toward state goals.
1. Financial resources
2. Physical resources
3. Human resources
4. Technological resources - ANS 4 types of resources that can be used to achieve desired
objectives
Resource Allocation - ANS Can be defined as distributing an organization's "assets" across
products, regions, and segments according to priorities established by annual objectives
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, Conflict - ANS a disagreement between two or more parties on one or more issues
Avoidance
Defusion
Confrontation - ANS Different categories for managing and resolving conflict
Avoidance - ANS actions such as ignoring the problem in hopes that the conflict will resolve
conflict will resolve itself or physically separating the conflicting individual
Defusion - ANS playing down differences between conflicting parties while accentuating
similarities and common interests
Confrontation - ANS exchanging members of conflicting parties so that each can gain an
appreciation of the other's point of view or holding a meeting at which conflicting parties
present their views and work through their differences
Strategic Business Unit Structure - ANS usually seen in large firms - • Groups similar divisions
into delegates authority for each unto to a senior executive who reports directly to the CEO
Functional Structure
Divisional Structure
Strategic Business Unit Structure
Matrix Structure - ANS Types of Organizational Structure
Functional Structure - ANS Most widely used structure - groups tasks and activities by
business function i.e marketing, operations, finance
Forces accountability to the top
Minimizes career development opportunities
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