Management Consulting Basics Test

"Fundamentals of Management Consulting"

Tests in the discipline "Fundamentals of Management Consulting"
Task 1
1. What is the purpose of counseling?
a) in assisting the client in solving managerial and economic problems;
b) in making managerial decisions for the client;
c) in an interview with a client on various issues;
d) in resolving unfavorable managerial situations.

2. A characteristic feature of management consulting is:
a) efficiency;
b) uncertainty;
c) independence;
d) competence.

3. How many approaches exist to define the concept of "consulting?"
a) one;
b) two;
at three o'clok;
d) four.

4. Consulting from the standpoint of a functional approach is:
a) strict performance by the consultant of all work under the contract with the client;
b) any form of assistance to the client;
c) the arrival of the consultant at the object of consultation;
d) performing all management functions in the consulting organization.

5. Consulting from the standpoint of a professional approach is:
a) an advisory service working under a contract for the provision of advisory services;
b) the union of professional consultants;
c) a society of independent experts;
d) a company operating in the service sector.

Task 2

1. Management consulting is a concept:
a) a planned economy;
b) economies in transition;
c) market economy;
d) an unstable developing economy.
2. In a modern market economy, consulting is:
a) infrastructure industry;
b) area of ​​activity;
c) scope of action;
d) direction of development.
3. The subject of consultation are:
a) economics;
b) management;
c) economics and management;
d) methods of introducing economic and managerial knowledge into the practice of economic structures.
4. The main objectives of counseling are:
a) providing professional assistance and advice on issues of economics and management;
b) client training;
c) saving the client from bankruptcy;
d) customer management.
5. The main purpose of contacting consultants of state-owned enterprises is:
a) reforming the state structure;
b) transferring the experience of managing private firms to the public sector;
c) improvement of the situation; the need for advice and help;
d) the solution of innovative problems in the management system of state structures.

Task 3


1. Management consulting involves:
a) provision of intensive professional assistance on a temporary basis;
b) constant cooperation with the client;
c) audit of the client's activities;
d) customer management.
2. Companies employ management consultants to:
a) reducing or eliminating uncertainty at different stages of the process of preparing the adoption and implementation of management decisions;
b) advanced training of the company's personnel;
c) conducting a tax audit;
d) conducting an audit.
3. Consulting should include:
a) as an art;
b) how to science;
c) as a craft;
d) how to help provided by professionals.
4. Ethical standards of counseling:
a) are regulated by the ethical guidelines of the codes of professional conduct of consultants;
b) are determined only by internal upbringing, norms of behavior, ethics of the consultant;
c) none exist;
d) are determined by foreign consulting associations.
5. Professional associations of consultants existing in Russia are called:
a) AKEU, AKUOR, NGPK;
b) FEACO, SBT, UNIKON;
c) EUROCONSULT, NTTM, AKEU;
d) AKUOR, SPbBUSINESS, UKRKONSULT.

Task 4

1. Can consultants or other employees of the consulting company purchase shares in companies that were their clients?
a) yes;
b) no;
c) possible;
d) sometimes.
2. Management consulting is associated with the following types of professional services:
a) trade, recruitment, logistics;