L3M4 Practice Test Questions Answers Updated 92 Questions [Q46-Q62]

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L3M4 Practice Test Questions Answers Updated 92 Questions

L3M4 dumps & CIPS Level 3 Advanced Certificate in Procurement and Supply Operations Sure Practice with 92 Questions

NEW QUESTION 46
Management studies and experiments over several decades have found that increased participation of workers in decision-making about changes tends to lead to (choose one):

Longer holidays / higher pay / more sunshine

Never-ending debates / time-wasting / indecision

Overcoming of resistance to change / increased co-operation and productivity

Industrial stoppages / strikes / sabotage

Consultation and involvement have been shown to enhance the likelihood of co-operation with pro-posed changes, thus participation and consultation is one often effective method of overcoming re-sistance to change.

NEW QUESTION 47
‘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?

Reward

Referent

Legitimate

Expert

The Chief Executive has power because they are in the post of the Chief Executive.
The Head of Procurement has power because they carry that job title.
They may also have other sources of power such as expert power, or charisma, but the correct re-sponse to the question is ‘legitimate’.
‘Coercive’ and ‘informational’ can also be sources of power not shown in the question.

NEW QUESTION 48
According to CIPS, which of the following are not included in the five ‘rights’ of procurement and supply?

Goods

Source

Manner

All three of them.
CIPS appears to have excluded these three possible candidates for inclusion, concentrating instead on quantity, quality, price, place, time.
Or QQPPT.

NEW QUESTION 49
Which two of the following actions are most likely to be carried out by the buying organisation?

Approve the invoice

Specify the need

Submit the invoice

Acknowledge the order

Specifying the need and checking the invoice would come from the buyer’s side.
The other two options would be carried out by the seller.

NEW QUESTION 50
‘The power of an individual to persuade others may come from perceived attractiveness and right to be given respect’ Which of French and Raven’s categorisations applies here?

Legitimate

Coercive

Referent

Reward

The answer is ‘referent power’.
An example might be a long-standing employee who ‘knows the ropes’ and helps others. Or it may be a famous person whose fame gives them power.
In some sources this may be known as ‘charisma power’.
For me a great example of this form of power is Bill Clinton, who combined his allegedly substan-tial charisma, along with legitimate power and informational power. Presumably as US President, he also had access to coercive power as well as reward power. A powerful guy in a powerful position. People who have dealt with him long after he ceased to be the President say that his referent / cha-risma power lives on, hugely.

NEW QUESTION 51
The letters ‘BPR’ stand for:

Business Project Re-engineering

Business Process Re-engineering

Business Procurement Re-engineering

Business People Re-training

Business Process Re-engineering is the correct answer.
As far as I am aware, the other terms do not exist. They are ‘red herrings’.

NEW QUESTION 52
‘operating at its full potential … working positively … getting on with their jobs’ Which of the Tuckman stages of team development is being described here?

Norming

Storming

Forming

Dorming

Performing

The answer is ‘performing’. The team has gone through the earlier stages successfully – not always the case – and is now performing well.

NEW QUESTION 53
‘Doing things for less cost’ is a description of:

Effectiveness

Efficiency

Economy

Economy.
A clear description given.
The other possible answers shown may be the subject of other questions in this and other L3 tests.

NEW QUESTION 54
Which two of the following are not personality traits?

Conscientiousness

Determination

Ability to use Microsoft Excel

Never been in trouble with the police

Conscientiousness and determination are clearly aspects of personality related to the individual.
Never having been in trouble with the police may be linked to a personality type, but it cannot be described as a personality trait.
All four options may be regarded as desirable by many potential employers.

NEW QUESTION 55
Taiichi Ohno came up with the notion of the ‘wastes’. How many wastes?

Seven.
Overproduction, inventory, excessive processing, waiting, transportation, motion, defects.

NEW QUESTION 56
In the Kubler-Ross Change Curve, which of these comes second?

Shock

Integration

Denial

Depression

The curve is: shock, denial, frustration and anger, depression, experimentation, decision, integration.
Therefore the answer to the question is ‘denial’.

NEW QUESTION 57
Workers are naturally lazy. They lack ambition. They must be controlled.

Theory X

Theory Y

Theory X.
One needs to simply memorise which is which.
A worker dislikX being at work.
(I try)

NEW QUESTION 58
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?

To calculate anticipated sales demand at the target price

Calculate the expected overall cost of the product

Plan the recruitment of additional staff and training of them

Check that the expected cost provides a suitable profit margin

Calculating sales demand is likely to be a sales / marketing activity; planning the recruitment / train-ing of staff is likely to be a human resources activity.
The other two activities shown are likely to be right up accounting and finance’s street.

NEW QUESTION 59
If the speed of change was incremental, and the extent of change was realignment, what single term might we use to describe this change?

Evolution

Adaptation

Revolution

Reconstruction

The correct answer is adaptation.

NEW QUESTION 60
‘Collaborate, communicate, XXXX and coerce’. Select the missing term.

Decide

Dictate

Consult

Direct

‘Collaborate, communicate, direct and coerce.’
Methods of communicating change. These terms are taken directly from your syllabus for this sub-ject, and reflect a decreasingly co-operative approach to communicating / implementing change.
Managers can decide where they wish to be on this spectrum of behaviours, rather like McGregor suggests with Theory X and Y.

NEW QUESTION 61
The creation of the internet / world wide web is an illustration of what kind of turbulence within the environment?

Technological

Market

Competitive

Technological turbulence creating in its turn, both competitive and market turbulence.

NEW QUESTION 62
Giving employees the right to make modest decisions in an independent and self-directing way, on behalf of the organisation. Trusting employees to do the right thing, for example, when faced with a customer complaint.

Entitlement

Empowerment

Endowment

Endorsement

Empowerment enables some decision-making to be at the ‘lowest level’ of the organisation, often creating enhanced levels of customer and job satisfaction. Empowerment can sometimes include small-scale authority to commit modest funds. Empowerment can enable staff to ‘own’ a problem.
The other terms shown are not relevant.

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