According to CIPS, which of the following are not internal stakeholders? Select one.

‘A person who cares for individuals and the team, a good listener, finds it hard to take difficult deci-sions’. From the ‘concern for people and feelings’ section of Belbin’s roles:

Which of the following departments would be both internal customers and internal suppliers of an organisational procurement function? Select all that apply.

A psychological view in which an employee treats the business and the work as if it were their own:

A functional organisation structure can lead to a 'xxxx' effect whereby employees do not communi-cate effectively horizontally across the structure with each other. Choose one to replace 'xxxx'.

Goals should be either / or (choose two):

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):

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

Which two of the following are not personality traits?

‘operating at its full potential … working positively … getting on with their jobs’

Which of the Tuckman stages of team development is being described here?

Thinking about the PESTEL model, under which category would climate change most suitably fall?

‘All procurement requirements valued at more than $100,000 must be competitively tendered, and any contracts arising therefrom must be signed by the Procurement Director’. This is an example of a:

Workers are naturally lazy. They lack ambition. They must be controlled.

Thinking of Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s work, which of the following terms describes a leader @who is not a dictator, but nonetheless makes the decisions. The team depends heavily on the lead-er, and what the leader says'.

Where there is transformational change coupled with a slow rate of change, is this:

According to CIPS / Profex, which of the following are not external stakeholders? Select two.

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

‘Positivity’ is about (choose one):

R Meredith Belbin made a distinction in his work between 'solo leaders', who were kind-of historic leaders; and 'team leaders' who are seen as being leaders for modern times, or of the future.

From the list shown, select the one answer which represents the solo leader, rather than the team leader.

CIPS believes that it is good practice for different staff members to be responsible for three key ac-tivities in procurement (specifying / requisitioning; sourcing / contracting; authorising payment), in order to reduce the likelihood of malpractice, and to do what is in the best interests of the organisa-tion. Select two of the following terms which this principle is known by.

An expediter would be expected to primarily:

Thinking about PEST, or PESTEL, or STEEPLE; under which two headings would taxation most comfortably sit?

Which one of the following is unlikely to appear in an organisational procurement manual?

It is said that society is undergoing the ‘fourth industrial revolution’. Which description most close-ly defines this idea?

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

Which one is not part of Lewin’s Force Field Analysis model (overcoming resistance to change)?

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