Exam 2: The Organizational Context: Strategy, structure, and Culture

A major weakness of a matrix organizational structure for project management occurs when:

________ designates formal reporting relationships,including the number of levels in the hierarchy and the span of control of managers and supervisors.

Which of the following is an external stakeholder group?

Compare the organizational culture among the students in this class with a contrasting student organizational culture from another class at this or another institution.Identify key differences in how these two different cultures developed using factors discussed in this book.

Stakeholder analysis looks at a project's customers and determines whether their needs are being met.

A project management office is designed to oversee or improve the management of projects without stripping responsibility from the project manager.

Organizational structure identifies the grouping of individuals into:

The Larson and Gobeli study that compared projects that had been managed in a variety of structural types revealed that new product development projects tended to be most effectively executed when the organizational structure was a:

The belief that organizations can sometimes gain tremendous benefit from creating a fully dedicated project organization is captured by the term:

What is strategic management and what role do projects play in it?

A failing project becomes a black hole for money,time,and personnel as management continues to pour resources into it despite the growing expectation that it will fail miserably.This phenomenon is known in project management circles as:

An important step in stakeholder management is the assessment of your own capabilities.

One element of strategic management is cross-functional decision making.

Define the term stakeholder and discuss the major groups of stakeholders.

External stakeholders that are external to a project but possess the power to effectively disrupt the project's development are:

The management department at the university decides to add a new program in restaurant,hotel,and institutional management.As part of the development process they hold focus groups consisting of area business leaders,current and former students,and restaurant and hotel owners.These groups can be described as:

The solution to external and internal problems that has worked consistently for a group and that is therefore taught to new members as the correct way to perceive,think about,and feel in relation to these problems is known as:

The ________ form of the project management office has the goal of maintaining and providing trained and skilled project professional as they are needed.

All major decisions and authority are under the control of the project manager in a:

A strategic element consisting of statements such as "a 5% increase in freshman to sophomore retention" and "a 10% increase in the six-year graduation rate" is best described as a: