1. In Learning from Experience: José Sergio
Gabrielli de Azevedo of Petrobras, Petrobras had not installed sensors to
detect a spill into the Guanabara Bay, and as result it was fined more than $25
million by the Brazilian government.
ANS: T
AACSB Technology | Information Technologies
2. In
Learning from Experience: José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo of Petrobras, when
José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo later took over the reins as CEO in 2005, his
goal was to have the company earn a profit.
ANS: F
His goal was to have the company become a
benchmark company for outstanding environmental performance.
AACSB Technology | Information Technologies
3. Because
organizations exist in a changing environment and are themselves constantly
changing, bureaucratic or mechanistic organizations are increasingly
ineffective.
ANS: T
AACSB Analytic | Environmental Influence
4. In
effective organizations, managing change is not particularly important since
those organizations already have effective systems in place.
ANS: F
There is considerable evidence that
adaptive, flexible organizations have a competitive advantage over rigid,
static organizations. As a result, managing change has become a central focus
of effective organizations.
AACSB Analytic | Operations Management
5. There
is considerable evidence that adaptive, flexible organizations have a
competitive advantage over rigid, static organizations.
ANS: T
AACSB Analytic | Operations Management
6. An
almost infinite variety of pressures for change impinge on organizations.
ANS: T
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