FACULTY OF ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION MIDTERM EXAM
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dilek YILMAZ
1. Explain the importance of sustainability management to the managers’ jobs in your
assigned industry? Please discuss by giving examples.
2. Explain the relevance of the political/legal, economic, and cultural environments to
global business in your assigned industry. Please discuss by giving examples.
3. Imagine that you are working as an industrial engineer in an organization in your
assigned industry. Given your moral developmental levels, describe a possible ethical
dilemma that you can face with your individual characteristics, the organization’s
structural design, the organization’s culture and intensity of the ethical issue as
moderator factors determining your resulting ethical/unethical behavior. Please discuss
by giving examples.
4. How can an organization establish and maintain an innovative organizational culture
in your assigned industry? Please discuss by giving examples.
5. What is indicated by the degree of change and complexity in an organization’s
environment in your assigned industry? How does the degree of change and
complexity in an organization’s environment in your assigned industry influence
managerial actions? Please discuss by giving examples.