Exam 11: Organizational Transformations: Birth, Growth, Decline, and Death

After Apple founded the personal computer market, IBM realized the potential and developed personal computers. IBM followed a(n)_________.

Weitzel and Jonsson's model suggests that top management can take action to reverse decline at any substage of decline.

In the creativity stage, an organization:

_________is a sequence of stages of growth and development through which organizations may pass.

One reason for the liability of newness is that entrepreneurs tend to adopt a very centralized mechanistic structure which is inappropriate for a young organization.

Power struggles between top managers and lower- level managers are most likely to occur in the _________stage of Greiner's model.

_________recognize and take advantage of opportunities to use their skills and competences to create value.

According to Greiner's model of growth, delegation is most likely to follow a crisis of_________ .

If an organization grows too much, it may enter the decline stage of the organizational life cycle.

An auto manufacturer increased its effectiveness by using flexible manufacturing. Many other companies have intentionally imitated the technology of this manufacturer. This is an example of_________ .

_________is the number of organizations that can compete for the same resources in a particular environment.

An organization in the dissolution stage should:

In a SWOT analysis, which of the following would fall under the category of "weakness?"

Which of the following is not a stage in Greiner's model of growth?

A major reorganization is needed when an organization reaches which of the following stages of decline?

When an organization is at the dissolution stage,

The four principal stages of an organization's life cycle are:

In Greiner's model of growth, the phase of growth following a crisis of leadership is called:

The organizational life cycle approach is based on the premise that all organizations pass through four basic stages at some point during their existence.

In a SWOT analysis, a typical weaknesses would be that new competitors could prevent the organization from acquiring needed resources.