EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which two of the following could not be classified as internal triggers for change? A change of:

Question2: 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.

Question3: Workers are naturally lazy. They lack ambition. They must be controlled.

Question4: A xxxx team is a group of individuals brought together into a single team from different areas of the organisation.
Select one which best replaces xxxx.

Question5: 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?

Question6: '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?

Question7: 'I have my doubts about that'.

Question8: Thinking about the STEP / PESTEL / STEEPLE model, into which two categories would taxation most suitably fall?

Question9: '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)

Question10: Where there is transformational change coupled with a rapid rate of change ('big bang'), is this:

Question11: Spot the one which is one of the seven wastes.

Question12: It is said that society is undergoing the 'fourth industrial revolution'. Which description most close-ly defines this idea?

Question13: Thinking about the PESTEL model, under which category would climate change most suitably fall?

Question14: Thinking about PEST, etc: under which heading would exchange rates and inflation fit?

Question15: Thinking about the PESTEL model, under which heading would ageing society most readily fall?

Question16: Spot the one which is one of the seven wastes.

Question17: According to CIPS / Profex, which one of the following is not a connected stakeholder? Select one.

Question18: 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?

Question19: Which one of the Tuckman stages of team development is being described here?
'..the team struggles to come together ... conflict ... competing for status and position'

Question20: 'Positivity' is about (choose one):

Question21: 'Using expensive equipment for a task when the same task could be done more simply and cheaper another way. Sometimes called "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut" '. Which one of the 'wastes' is being described here?

Question22: Which of the following departments would be both internal customers and internal suppliers of an organisational procurement function? Select all that apply.

Question23: Where there is transformational change coupled with a slow rate of change, is this:

Question24: Fear of the unknown, peer pressure, organisational politics are examples of reasons why people might:

Question25: 'XXX theories of leadership are now largely discredited as a means of identifying team leaders'.
This quotation comes from the Profex Publishing textbook for this subject. Which word has XXX replaced?

Question26: According to CIPS / Profex, which of the following are not external stakeholders? Select two.

Question27: 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'.

Question28: According to CIPS, which of the following are not internal stakeholders? Select one.

Question29: A psychological view in which an employee treats the business and the work as if it were their own:

Question30: 'operating at its full potential ... working positively ... getting on with their jobs' Which of the Tuckman stages of team development is being described here?

Question31: Which of the following is a benefit from compliance with procurement processes and procedures? Select all that apply.

Question32: The view that workers are naturally lazy, avoid responsibility and are without ambition is in line with Theory (Douglas McGregor):

Question33: Taiichi Ohno came up with the notion of the 'wastes'. How many wastes?

Question34: 'A team has a common XXXX and YYYY'.
Select the one which fits best.

Question35: 'Using resources to a more productive effect, either by producing more output with the same re-source, or using less resource to obtain the same output'. This is a description of:

Question36: '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?

Question37: CIPS believes that it is good practice for different staff members to be responsible for three key ac-tivities in procurement (specifying / requisitioning; sourcing / contracting; authorising payment), in order to reduce the likelihood of malpractice, and to do what is in the best interests of the organisa-tion. Select two of the following terms which this principle is known by.

Question38: Which one of the following is not part of John Adair's 'action-centred leadership' model?

Question39: Which of the following departments would be both internal customers and internal suppliers of an organisational procurement function? Select all that apply.

Question40: A cross-functional team is created to help progress the development of a new product in a manufac-turing business. Which two of the following activities are unlikely to be allocated to the representa-tive from the accounting and finance function?

Question41: Continuous improvement - making small changes in operations and activities in a never-ending way - is called in Japanese: