Exam 15: Organizational Design and Structure

A) increasing formalization of job requirements and interpersonal relationships at work
B) hierarchical control and centralized decision making
C) greater specialization and standardization
D) flexibility and efficiency

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A) The process of breaking organizational goals into tasks.
B) The linking of organizational parts, jobs, and roles for coordinated effort.
C) The number of employees, total assets, or units produced.
D) Tools, procedures, techniques, information, and machines used to create output.
E) Area, activities, or people outside the boundaries of an organization

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A) The process of crafting and adjusting the structure of an organization.
B) Jobs, organizational units and their linkage.
C) Geographic dispersion of organizational units.
D) A graphic representation of jobs, functions, and organizational units.
E) Close supervision and a narrow span of control.

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A) As complexity increases, the strategic decision process will become more politicized.
B) The organization will find it more difficult to recognize environmental opportunities and threats as complexity increases.
C) As complexity increases, the strategic process will be constrained by the limitations of top managers.
D) The constraints on good decision processes will be multiplied by the limitations of each individual within the organization.

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A) strategically choose one or the other
B) invest in robotics
C) become a knowledge-based company
D) become dynamically stable

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A) any play
B) any time
C) no matter
D) mass customization

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A) The view or perception of change and disturbance outside the organization.
B) Stages of organization development.
C) Structural arrangements stemming from a stable, or relatively unchanging environment.
D) A desired state and one or more courses of action necessary to achieve the desired state.
E) The organization of product markets outside a firm's home country.

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A) a well-defined chain of command
B) cross-functional teams
C) an assistant to the president
D) management information systems

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A) The better the fit, the more likely that the organization will achieve its short-run goals.
B) The better the fit, the more likely the organization will process information and design appropriate organizational roles for long-term prosperity.
C) It is apparent there must be some level of fit between the structure and the contextual dimensions of the organization.
D) The better the fit, the more the structure will determine the strategy and goals of the organization.

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A) with strategic disadvantage
B) where profit will be difficult to achieve
C) of high environmental uncertainty
D) where a task oriented leadership style is necessary

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A) Designing tasks to minimize the need for coordination was found to be the most effective form if integration.
B) Tacit coordination was found to be more effective than communication.
C) Tacit coordination was found to complement task design and communication.
D) A & B

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A) centralization of decisional authority
B) standardization
C) complexity
D) formalization

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A) The process of crafting and adjusting the structure of an organization.
B) Jobs, organizational units and their linkage.
C) Geographic dispersion of organizational units.
D) A graphic representation of jobs, functions, and organizational units.
E) Close supervision and a narrow span of control.

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