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Answer : D

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.

Answer : A

Rituals.

Might be a regular team meeting; or a pub / sports evening with colleagues. Might be a monthly 'em-ployee of the month' award. Something which binds the employee to the organisation - in a nice way, one hopes.

I spent some time in France and marvelled how a colleague or senior person would go round and shake hands with every colleague in the morning - almost a kind of respectful 'thank goodness we survived the night' daily event. I thought how poor the British are not to have that ritual - I still do think that.

Answer : A

Staff names.

One of the 'benefits' of the creation of organisations large enough to have procurement manuals is that individuals can be replaced in their posts by others. This is part of the basis of Weber's theory of bureaucracy. Charles Handy, a great UK management writer tells a story of how he took up a new post for a large oil company, and on his office door the job title was affixed permanently, but his own name was presented in a readily-replaceable label. He realised when he saw this how easily his employer thought he could be replaced.

Thus, procurement manuals are unlikely to name individual staff members - policies and procedures, posts and activities, yes.

Answer : A

Complementary: the team's skills should fit together; the should 'complement' each other.

A soccer team full of defenders would be unlikely to be successful?

Answer : D

'Collaborate, communicate, direct and coerce.'

Methods of communicating change. These terms are taken directly from your syllabus for this sub-ject, and reflect a decreasingly co-operative approach to communicating / implementing change.

Managers can decide where they wish to be on this spectrum of behaviours, rather like McGregor suggests with Theory X and Y.