Exam 4: Fundamentals of Organizing

The span of control principle holds that:

The increase in education and ability of both supervisors and employees means that supervisors need to have narrower spans of control.

Using the functional approach means that one person is accountable for each product line.

Reengineering is a shift back toward more traditional organizational design.

How does the inverted pyramid organizational structure differ from traditional organizational design?

Perhaps the greatest cost of downsizing is the social cost to employees.

Reengineering is very expensive and should be used only for big challenges that really matter.

The process of determining how activities are to be grouped is called departmentalization.

Discuss the functions of both line and staff personnel and how each group contributes to the organization's effectiveness.

In Likert's internal systems model ____ variables reflect the achievements of the organization.

The functional approach to departmentalization provides the best opportunity for training and developing new managers.

A restricted kind of authority which gives a staff person authority over an operation is called:

In a line organization:

This type of authority is also known as "authority of ideas".

Staff personnel carry out the primary activities of the business, such as production and sales.

Close supervision allows a manager to have a wider span of control than does general supervision.

In line organizations, responsibility and authority are not clearly defined.

Organizations that have grown by merging with other companies tend to be decentralized

Job assignments in a matrix departmentalization structure are temporary.

In the first stage of organizational growth, the owner/manager performs all the organizational activities.