Scenario 1: Question 1 and 2 are based on the scenario of HIDUPMAUBERANI. Ahmad is the Senior Strategic Officer of HIDUPMAUBERANI. With the recent covid19 pandemic, the economic downturn had forced the company to find a new strategy to bring up the organizational performance. The board of directors forced Ahmad to revamp the organization to support a new organizational strategy of Retrenchment. But somehow, Ahmad knew that he should not simply retrench people from the employment as he believes that the strength of the organization comes from the employees. Ahmad has decided to relook at short-term strategic planning as well as long term strategic planning. 1. What is the short-term strategic planning that Ahmad is talking about? A Tactical planning B. Growth planning C. Competitive dynamics D. Cost leadership 2. As Ahmad's supervisor, suggest to Ahmad on the first step that he should take to ensure the strategic management process he is undertaking can help him in identifying whether HIDUPMAUBERANI possesses the commensurate level of capabilities. A. Analyze what is the current PESTEL component within the business environment of HIDUPMAUBERANI and combine the information with the current operating environment. B. Ahmad is to analyze the current competition landscape to ensure that the competitors are not having the strengths similar to the organization. c. Ahmad is to buy over the suppliers so that the competitors would not have the access to the raw materials. D. Ahmad is to bribe the government to ensure that the organization able to control the political component of the general environment that the company is taking part in. 3. The general environment contains components that have long-term implications for managing the organization. One of the general component environments is A. Technology component B. Supplier component C. International component D. Human resources component 4. As a public university, IIUM wants to formulate a strategy that is able to help her to always stay competitive. The strategic office of the university decided to start the strategic formulation by analyzing the performance of each kulliyyah as strategic business units. The strategic office starts off the analysis by looking into the Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences, then followed by Kulliyyah of Laws, and so on until all kulliyyahs are exhaustively analyzed. What is the best tool to be adopted by the office in conducting the strategic formulation for the university? A. SWOT Analysis B. Business Portfolio Analysis c. Critical Question Analysis D. Porter Five Forces Analysis 5. The first step in the functional similarity method of dividing jobs is A. to designate appropriate activities that must be performed to reach desired objectives B. to examine management system objectives C. to make specific individuals responsible for performing specific jobs D. to design specific jobs by grouping similar activities 6. A firm's is its long-term purpose that defines both what it aspires to be in the long run and what it wants to avoid in the meantime. A. mission B. strategy C. objective D. goal 7. Imani Fashions, a clothing manufacturer, uses an assembly-line to manufacture clothes whereby different groups of workers specialize in particular tasks - cutting fabric, finishing sleeves, making collars, fixing zippers, sewing buttons, etc. Which organizing system is being used at Imani Fashions? A. job rotation B. job enlargement C. participative management D. division of labour 8. Informal structure is A. molded by individual norms and values and social relationships B. defined as the relationships among organizational resources as outlined by management C. represented primarily by the organization chari D. usually represented in a pyramid form