1.4 True or False
To test your understanding of this topic (Stakeholders), answer the following true or false questions.
No. | Statement | True or False? |
1. | Any individual or organization affected by the activities and performance of a business is known as a stakeholder. | True |
2. | Stakeholders can be both internal and external to a business. | True |
3. | Stakeholder mapping is a tool that involves organizing stakeholders in a matrix based on their degree of ownership and level of interest in the business. | False - level of power and interest |
4. | Trainee managers are an external stakeholder group of a business. | False |
5. | The local community is an example of an external stakeholder group for a business. | True |
6. | A government's main concerns in business affairs are tax revenues, employment opportunities, and economic growth. | True |
7. | When managing stakeholders’ interests, successful businesses strive to ensure the interests of most stakeholders are satisfied most of the time. | True |
8. | Most customers of a business would be highly concerned with how much profit a business earns. | False |
9. | When managing stakeholder interests, it tends to be more complicated for larger businesses than smaller ones. | True |
10. | The main concern of pressure groups is how an organization’s business activities will impact the cause that they support. | True |
11. | According to stakeholder mapping, stakeholders with a high level of interest and high degree of power are the most important to the business. | True |
12. | Suppliers are not stakeholders because they have no direct interest in how a business performs. | False |
13. | Stakeholders are not necessarily the owners of a business. | True |
14. | The main concern or interest of shareholders of a business is profit as this will impact the amount of dividend payments and the value of the company's shares. | True |
15. | Managers are people hired to be responsible for overseeing certain functions, operations, or departments within an organization. | True |
16. | Directors are the senior executives who are legally responsible for the overall running of a company on behalf of their shareholders (the legal co-owners of the company). | True |
17. | A competitor is interested in what rivals are doing as it may impact on their sales revenue and profits. | True |
18. | The local community’s main concern as a stakeholder group is how a business’s operations will impact on their lifestyle, such as employment and environment. | True |
19. | A labour union exists to protect the interests of its worker members, such as workers’ pay and conditions of employment. | True |
20. | Stakeholder conflict refers to the mutually exclusive and incompatible interests of different stakeholder groups of a business organization. | True |
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