Organizational Behavior

Practice Exam Questions - Bank 5

1. According to Pope, this function is primarily responsible for compensation, labor relations, employment, program review, and training: (Pope, 18)

a. Personnel
b. Supply and Logistics
c. Engineering
d. Finance

2. According to Pope, this function is primarily responsible for procurement, contracts, transportation, records, disposal, and administrative services: (Pope, 18)

a. Personnel
b. Supply and Logistics
c. Engineering
d. Finance

3. According to Pope, this function is primarily responsible for design, construction, standards, and repair: (Pope, 18)

a. Personnel
b. Supply and Logistics
c. Engineering
d. Finance

4. According to Pope, this function is primarily responsible for internal auditing, accounting, budget, claims and contract appeals: (Pope, 18)

a. Personnel
b. Supply and Logistics
c. Engineering
d. Finance

5. Which of the following is not one of the Pope's eight safety business activities for serving management? (Pope, 18)

a. prepare and improve plans to improve management
b. plan, direct, and control an intramanagement communications system
c. report findings to functional heads on an ad-hoc basis
d. ensure department heads are held accountable for accident rates

6. Which of the following is not one of the Pope's eight safety business activities for serving management? (Pope, 81)

a. administer the technical control program
b. monitor excessive costs of repairs and maintenance
c. rely on the employee-management safety advisory committee
d. provide the company with a quality-assurance management program

7. Which of the following is not one of the Pope's eight safety business activities for serving management? (Pope, 81)

a. report findings to functional heads on an ad-hoc basis
b. respond and reply to employee complaints in a timely manner
c. train and manage a corps of collateral-duty safety and health specialists
d. identify unreliable production processes and nonconformance problems

8. According to Pope, every manager must know what the business of safety management is in order to: (Pope, 81)

a. improve that manager's own effectiveness
b. rely on safety managers to control the safety function
c. give safety some consideration in making decisions
d. know how to report safety problems

9. According to Pope, what is the effect of considering the industrial employee the principal recipient of safety services? (Pope, 81-82)

a. it leaves management out of the safety equation
b. it results in error-free performance in a top-down structure
c. it places error-free performance at the bottom of the totem pole
d. it ensure root cause analysis is never considered

10. According to Pope, as a staff officer, a safety specialist should not be dealing directly with employees. This is the prerogative of: (Pope, 82)

a. the safety director
b. other customers
c. line managers
d. other employees

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