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CIPS L3M4 Exam
Free CIPS L3M4 Exam Actual Questions
Note: Premium Questions for L3M4 were last updated On May. 10, 2024 (see below)
'operating at its full potential ... working positively ... getting on with their jobs'
Which of the Tuckman stages of team development is being described here?
The answer is 'performing'. The team has gone through the earlier stages successfully - not always the case - and is now performing well.
According to CIPS, procurement and supply management for CIPS members is a(n) (choose best fit):
CIPS regards procurement as a profession, and encourages members to describe it in that way.
Procurement should be regarded as a profession in the same way that lawyers and accountants are regarded as professionals.
Continuous improvement -- making small changes in operations and activities in a never-ending way -- is called in Japanese:
It's 'kaizen'.
This links to notions of JIT, lean, total quality management, etc.
The other answers shown are not relevant to this course.
'Using resources to a more productive effect, either by producing more output with the same re-source, or using less resource to obtain the same output'. This is a description of:
Efficiency.
This is a clear explanation of what is meant by 'efficiency'.
Economy and effectiveness are addressed by other QUESTION NO :s in this L3 series of tests including in this subject.
'XXX theories of leadership are now largely discredited as a means of identifying team leaders'.
This quotation comes from the Profex Publishing textbook for this subject. Which word has XXX replaced?
Trait.
The trait theory of leadership is the idea that successful leaders have particular personal traits (char-acteristics) which have enabled them to become effective leaders. 'A born leader', etc. Winston Churchill, V I Lenin, Laurens van der Post, and such like.
The view now is that leadership is more likely to be taught or trained, resulting in effective leaders.
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