A production department in a company has been experiencing several production problems for the past ...

A production department in a company has been experiencing several production problems for the past few months.
 
  When production managers investigate, they discover that materials management always buys inputs from the lowest-cost sources of supply and makes no attempt to develop the kind of long-term relationships with suppliers that can raise the quality and reliability of inputs. At which stage of Pondy's model of organizational conflict is the company in?
  A) latent conflict
  B) perceived conflict
  C) conflict aftermath
  D) manifest conflict

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true regarding the perceived conflict stage of Pondy's model of organizational conflict?
 
  A) It is the first stage in Pondy's model of organizational conflict.
  B) This stage comes immediately after the manifest conflict stage.
  C) At this stage conflict is resolved in a way that leaves subunits feeling cooperative.
  D) The felt conflict stage comes immediately after this stage.

Question 3

Which of the following is the third stage of Pondy's model of organizational conflict?
 
  A) latent conflict
  B) perceived conflict
  C) felt conflict
  D) manifest conflict

Question 4

A production manager agrees in a meeting to modify an order for the sales department, but then ignores the request later because of the ongoing conflict between the two departments.
 
  This passive aggressive type of behavior occurs in which stage of Pondy's model of organizational conflict?
  A) expressed conflict
  B) perceived conflict
  C) manifest conflict
  D) conflict aftermath

Question 5

Which of the following stages in Pondy's model of organizational conflict comes immediately after the felt conflict stage?
 
  A) latent conflict
  B) perceived conflict
  C) conflict aftermath
  D) manifest conflict

Question 6

In which stage of Pondy's model do subunits respond emotionally to each other, and develop polarized attitudes such as us versus them that puts the blame for the conflict squarely on the other subunit?
 
  A) latent conflict
  B) perceived conflict
  C) felt conflict
  D) conflict aftermath