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

A major organizational innovation of the first two decades of the 20^th century was the multidivisional corporation.

In most large companies strategic planning is:

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:

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

According to James Thompson, "pooled interdependence" is the most intensive form of interaction between organizational members.

Firms exist in order to achieve the efficiency benefits of specialization and division of labor.

The shared values embodied in an organization's culture cannot substitute for direct management control.

As companies and their industries mature, the need for efficiency and more centralized control, often results in companies replacing their functional structures with multidivisional structures.

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

For hierarchical organizations to be adaptable requires: