Exam 10: Organization Size, Life Cycle and Decline

All of the following are methods to more effectively downsize an organization except which one?

Vulnerability reflects an organization's strategic ability to prosper in its environment.

Charismatic and direction-giving top management style is characteristic during which stage of the organizational life cycle?

At what life cycle stage would an organization most likely begin to develop clear goals and direction and have established departments along with a hierarchy of authority?

Which stage of decline is characterized by chaos, workforce downsizing, changes in structure, and erosion of the social fabric of the organization?

Too much red tape is a crisis during which stage of the organizational life cycle?

The formalization stage involves the installation and use of rules, procedures and control systems.

Who or what is attributed with the development of the dimensions of bureaucracy?

All of the following statements are true regarding large-sized organizations except which one?

Formalization refers to rules, procedures and written documentation that prescribe the goals of the company.

Which of the following is a characteristic or an advantage of a small organization?

The term organizational decline is used to define a condition in which a substantial, absolute decrease in an organization's resource base occurs over a period.

What percentage of businesses that make it past the first year still fail within five years because they cannot make the transition from the entrepreneurial stage?

refer(s) to the proportions of administrative, clerical and professional support staff.

The decision making at Jerome's organization is partly the responsibility of the middle and even the lower level managers. His organization is of a size large enough that having top levels of management to make all the necessary decisions would prove to be counter- productive for the business. It is most probable that Jerome's organization is .

Bureaucracy is an organizational framework marked by rules and procedures, specialization and division of labour, hierarchy of authority, technically qualified personnel, separate position and incumbent and written communications and records.

When an organization has a substantial, absolute decrease in its resource base that occurs over time, it is most likely experiencing which of the following?

What organizational life cycle stage would most likely have the characteristics of being non-bureaucratic, the top manager provides the structure and control system for the organization, and it is a one-person show?