In: Operations Management
17. Which statement accurately describes a global virtual team?
a.Three employees from the United States working together in Germany
b.A team in Japan and a team in Spain working on similar projects separately
c.Employees in England and employees in the United States working together as a team on a project through video conferencing and e-mail
d.Six employees working together in Russia who access data stored online
18. Clark created a group as part of the organization’s structure. This type of group is known as __________.
a.functional
b.cross-functional
c.informal
d.formal
19.Marketing, finance, operations, and human resources are examples of what type of group?
a. Functional
b.Cross-functional
c.Command
d.Task
20.The human resources management process is also known as the __________.
a.staffing process
b.human resource cycle
c.personnel system
d.onboarding/offboarding process
17. Which statement accurately described a global virtual team?
Answer- C.
Employees from the England and United States are working together for the same project as a team and they are connected through the video conference and emails. This option clearly describes the global virtual team definition
Options A says that Employees in United States are working together. It doesn’t describe the definition because virtual team defined as people will work in different places.
B. Team from Japan and Spain working on same project separately. Teams should not work separately they should work combined on the same project at different places.
D. Employees should work at different places but option D says that six employees are working in Russia so it was the wrong statement.
18. Clark created a group as a part of the organizational structure. This type of group is known as—
Answer- D. Formal.
Formal organizational structure is also known as the organizational structure. This system was concerned with the relationship between the employees and employers.
A. Functional structure defined as the organizational structure where employees are grouped according to their departments. B. Cross functional organizational structure refers to the different experts of different departments will work towards the same goal. C. Informal structures are established around social or project groups.
19. Marketing, finance, operations and human resource are examples of what type of group?
Answer- A. Functional
These are the four operations which will be carried out by the functional work teams for the survival and maintenance of the company.
B. cross functional is a type where experts will work together and it will be comes under the management team. C. Command group comes under the formal organizational structure so it was not relevant to the answer. D. Task is a group where team will be functioned according to the project.
20. Human resource management process is also known as
Answer- A. staffing process
Human resource is a department which was being appointed to hire, train and check the welfare of the employees so option A staffing process is the accurate answer.
B. Human resource cycle is the processes which will be carried after estimating the manpower in the company but human resource management also check the amount of employees required for the company. C. personnel system refers to the management which involves in the employees personnel system. D. On boarding and off boarding refers to human resource management to know about the skills of the new employees but it was not relevant to the answer.