Exam 6: Organization Structure and Management Systems: the Fundamentals of Strategy Implementation

It is important for in incoming CEO to be intimately familiar with the culture of the organization he/she is joining because:

In doubles tennis,the main mechanism through which the players coordinate their actions is:

For hierarchical organizations to be adaptable requires:

In recent decades many large corporations have reorganized their matrix structures such that financial and strategic control is exercised through a single dimension.

Organic organizational forms are preferable to mechanistic organizational forms:

The major determinant of the organizational culture of most companies is:

The pioneers of the multidivisional structure were:

Jay Galbraith and Ed Lawler's comment that: "Ultimately,there may be no long-term sustainable advantage that the ability to organize and manage" may be justified by:

Conventionally,strategy is viewed as preceding organizational structure.Management writer Tom Peters states the opposite: "strategy follows structure." The relationship between strategy and structure is best described as:

The success of the multidivisional structure as an organizational form was because:

The comment,"Brilliant strategy; lousy implementation" confirms the essential fact that strategy formulation and strategy implementation are distinct,separable activities.

The rigidities of hierarchical control have resulted in most business enterprises no longer being organized as hierarchies.

An important role of shared values within an organization is to:

The epithet "Great strategy; lousy implementation" is typically wrong because:

Corporations are not the dominant organizational form in all industries-in agriculture and many service industries other forms of business enterprise predominate.

The Tata Group,the Virgin Group,and Alphabet Inc.are examples of:

In most large companies the strategic planning cycle begins with:

Firms organized around functional structures tend to experience management problems when:

Jamie Dimon's comment,"I'd rather have first-rate execution and second-rate strategy anytime than brilliant ideas and mediocre management" reflects the view that strategy implementation is more important than strategy formulation.

Hierarchy is a feature of all complex organizational forms whether human,biological,or physical.