Business objectives & stakeholders quiz

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Business/Economics Quiz on Business objectives & stakeholders quiz , created by Razi Aqel on 04/04/2019.
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Question 1

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Which of the following best defines the term 'stakeholder'?
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  • Anyone with shares in a company
  • Anyone with an interest in an organisation
  • Anyone who owns a business
  • Anyone who buys a product from the organization

Question 2

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Which stakeholder is most interested in profit?
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  • Staff
  • Customers
  • Managers
  • Owners

Question 3

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Which one of the following is an internal stakeholder
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  • A creditor
  • A key supplier
  • An employee
  • The government

Question 4

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What objectives do different groups of stakeholders have?
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  • No objectives
  • Different objectives
  • Similar objectives
  • Identical objectives

Question 5

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The laying-off of staff is NOT in the best benefit of:
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  • Owners
  • Customers
  • Lenders
  • Employees

Question 6

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Staff demand a 5% pay increase. Which stakeholder is most likely to be affected?
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  • Customers
  • Owners
  • Managers
  • Suppliers

Question 7

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As business objectives are set further down along the hierarchy they become increasingly:
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  • Detailed in nature
  • Strategic in nature
  • Financial in nature
  • Short-term in nature

Question 8

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Which of this objectives would be consistent with a corporate objective to reduce costs?
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  • Increase marketing budget by 10%
  • Increase average selling price by 15%
  • Increase labor productivity by 25%
  • Increase unit costs by 10%

Question 9

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A key purpose of setting corporate objectives is to:
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  • Makes it easier to calculate bonuses for employees
  • Improve operational efficiency
  • Provide detailed targets for departments & individuals
  • Provide focus for all business activities

Question 10

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A corporate objective of survival is most likely to be for the following company:
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  • A well-known Multi-national organization
  • A long established profitable family business
  • A start-up company
  • A public organization

Question 11

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The 2 main advantages of successfully achieving a corporate objective to cut-costs are:
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  • Lower cash & higher profits
  • Lower costs & more cash
  • Higher profits & higher expenses
  • Lower costs & more customers

Question 12

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What is a business objective?
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  • A statement of what the company has achieved
  • A statement of what the company is trying to achieve
  • A statement of what the company is currently achieving
  • A statement of what the company must legally achieve

Question 13

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Who normally decides on business objectives for a company in the private sector?
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  • Customers
  • Managers
  • Employees
  • The government

Question 14

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What is an example of stakeholder consideration?
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  • When owners keep all the profits for themselves.
  • When some profit is sacrificed to pay staff an annual bonus.
  • When owners decide to increase profits.
  • When when managers extend the working day by 1 more hour

Question 15

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Which is the best example of a SMART objective?
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  • To make a 5% profit
  • To attract 10% more customers sometime next year
  • To respond to customer inquiries 10% quicker by the end of the current month
  • To partner-up with a distributor, retailer, a marketing agency, and a competitor by the end of this month
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