Exam 14: Foundations of Organisational Structure

We-Train-Em has hired you to develop training materials for its seminars.Your first assignment is to write a training manual that will assist new managers in designing an appropriate structure for their part of an organisation.Included in the manual will be information about the key questions that they must answer in deciding about the best organisational structure. __________ is addressed by asking the question,'On what basis will jobs be grouped together?'

The __________ of an environment refers to the degree of heterogeneity and concentration among environmental elements.

The __________structure is considered to be a flat organisation.

An effective strategy for managing downsizing is:

The ________ organisation replaces departments with highly empowered teams.

The innovation strategy is characterised by:

You have divided the jobs done by your department through work specialisation and are now trying to decide how to best group them for efficiency and service to the customer.You are considering grouping activities by function,product,process or customer. You find that there seems to be a common set of problems among certain types of buyers of your product.You will probably choose:

Matthew is a new divisional manager.In reorganising his department he must make some decisions regarding the span of control. The question of span of control determines:

The major advantage of the virtual organisation is its ______ ,which allows innovative individuals with little money to successfully compete with more established organisations.

We-Train-Em has hired you to develop training materials for its seminars.Your first assignment is to write a training manual that will assist new managers in designing an appropriate structure for their part of an organisation.Included in the manual will be information about the key questions that they must answer in deciding about the best organisational structure. One of the questions included in the training manual is 'To what degree are tasks subdivided into separate jobs?' This question addresses the issue of:

Which of the following problems is MOST likely to occur in a matrix structure?

Specialisation creates subunit conflicts in the:

One of the most popular ways to group activities is by:

What is the virtual organisation?

Downsizing is a systematic effort to make an organisation leaner by: