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Team Dynamics and Change L3M4 exam is designed for those who are involved in the procurement and supply function, who must recognize the wider environment in which they work and the impacts that different types of individuals and team dynamics have to play on organizational success. We just updated Team Dynamics and Change L3M4 exam dumps, which can help you study all the related topics. Free updated Team Dynamics and Change L3M4 exam dumps are available below.

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1. Peter Scholtes developed a matrix which looks at the relationship between how much a leader is perceived to care, and how competent the leader is perceived to be. This matrix is often called the 'trust matrix'.

Based on Scholte’s Trust matrix, which of the following terms would apply to a leader that the team thinks cares a lot, and is also very capable?

Trust

Distrust

Affection

Respect

2. 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.

Entitlement

Empowerment

Endowment

Endorsement

3. ‘Other people are only ever in it for themselves, and never act for honourable or unselfish reasons’.

Skepticism

Empiricism

Cynicism

Schism

4. Where an organisational internal customer / user deliberately circumvents the procurement function, and buys from an external supplier without following due procedure. This is commonly called:

Compliant spend

Tail spend

Iceman spend

Maverick spend

5. Management studies and experiments over several decades have found that increased participation of workers in decision-making about changes tends to lead to (choose one):

Longer holidays / higher pay / more sunshine

Never-ending debates / time-wasting / indecision

Overcoming of resistance to change / increased co-operation and productivity

Industrial stoppages / strikes / sabotage

6. According to CIPS / Profex, which one of the following is not a connected stakeholder? Select one.

Shareholders

Suppliers

Customers

Trade unions

7. An expediter would be expected to primarily:

Undertake purchasing research

Deliver in-house procurement training

Chase up late or potentially late deliveries

Pay invoices

8. ‘Positivity’ is about (choose one):

A tendency to develop theories

A ‘can do’ attitude

Adopting a particular viewpoint

Knowledge of electronics

9. ‘I have my doubts about that’.

‘I’m not so sure’.

A realist

A fellow traveller

A skeptic

A cynic

10. 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'.

Autocratic

Dictatorial

Laissez-faire

Democratic

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11. According to CIPS, which of the following are not included in the five ‘rights’ of procurement and supply?

Goods

Source

Manner

12. Thinking about the STEP / PESTEL / STEEPLE model, into which two categories would taxation most suitably fall?

Socio-cultural

Political

Technological

Economic

13. Spot the one which is one of the seven wastes.

Refectories

Defectives

Defects

Rejects

14. Goals should be either / or (choose two):

SMARTIES

SMARTA

SMART

SMARTLY

15. Thinking of the cultural web (Johnson and Scholes), which of the following refers to the idea that past events will be recurringly discussed and kept alive by current employees telling newcomers, reinforcing certain aspects of culture?

Rituals

Stories

Power structures

Organisational structures

16. 'A person who sees the big picture. Thinks accurately and carefully. May lack energy and the ability to inspire others'.

Which one Belbin's team roles is being described here?

Resource-investigator

Co-ordinator

Plant

Monitor / evaluator

17. Conscious knowledge of one’s own character and feelings C a cornerstone of emotional intelligence C sometimes described as ‘know thyself’:

Self-selection

Self-development

Self-awareness

Self-interest

18. The potential benefits of a cross-functional team are just that C potential. None is guaranteed. How-ever, some benefits seem more likely than others.

Which one of the following suggested benefits is least likely to automatically follow from the creation of an effective cross-functional team?

Reduced stock levels

Motivation

Improved communication

Sharing knowledge

19. Kotter and Schlesinger suggested six approaches to organisational change. One approach is based on the idea that people don’t really understand, and by increasing their understanding, commitment could be won. This relatively soft approach to change is called:

Participation

Education

Facilitation

Coercion

20. A cross-functional team is created to help progress the development of a new product in a manufacturing business.

Which two of the following activities are unlikely to be allocated to the representative from the accounting and finance function?

To calculate anticipated sales demand at the target price

Calculate the expected overall cost of the product

Plan the recruitment of additional staff and training of them

Check that the expected cost provides a suitable profit margin

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21. Where there is transformational change coupled with a rapid rate of change (‘big bang’), is this:

Evolution

Reconstruction

Adaptation

Revolution

22. ‘A person who is reliable in seeing a task through to the end’. From the ‘doing / acting’ section, which of the Belbin team roles is being described here?

(An easy one C perhaps too easy)

Shaper

Completer / finisher

Implementer

23. ‘A person who cares for individuals and the team, a good listener, finds it hard to take difficult decisions’.

From the ‘concern for people and feelings’ section of Belbin’s roles:

Resource-investigator

Co-ordinator

Teamworker

24. Peter Kraljic first published his Portfolio Purchasing Model in a paper entitled ‘Purchasing Must Become Supply Management’ in the Harvard Business Review in September of which year?

1943

2013

1983

2003

25. ‘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?

Reward

Referent

Legitimate

Expert

26. Which one of the following is very commonly seen as being the primary role of the procurement function (especially by those outside the procurement function)?

And yet on many occasions, it should not be the primary focus.

Cost reduction

Sourcing new materials for products under development

Developing deep relationships with long-term suppliers of key goods and services

Participating in international procurement conferences and developing staff

27. Which one is not part of Lewin’s Force Field Analysis model (overcoming resistance to change)?

Change

Unchange

Refreeze

Unfreeze

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