Exam 7: Organization Structure and Management Systems: the Fundamentals of Strategy Implementation

The disaster of the Spanish armada attack of England, and the failure of the DaimlerBenz-Chrysler merger illustrate:

To enhance a better alignment between the interests of the organization's owners and those of its managers:

Nelson Mandela's organizational redesign of the ANC illustrates the disadvantages of hierarchical structures in achieving coordination and adaptability. .

What is a networks structure? What would be an example of such a structure?

In the capitalist economy, production is organized in two ways: in markets, by the price mechanism, and in firms, by managerial direction

The epithet "Great strategy; lousy implementation" implies that:

Which of the following statements is correct?

Hierarchies are too controlling and bureaucratic to be efficient.

A general trend regarding control in organizations is the emphasis on a better integration of management systems

Architectural knowledge is:

Roles and directives, mutual adjustment, and routines are:

A fundamental challenge of managing a large firm is to achieve an optimal trade-off between:

What does the "agency problem" mean?

Hierarchy is a feature of:

The Ch'in dynasty of China in 220BC was:

The description of pin manufacture was an illustration of:

An advantage of the systems view of hierarchy is:

Shared values are an example of:

The functional structure is conducive to:

The fundamental problem of large organizations is that specialisation leads to lack of co-ordination.