Exam 4: The External Environment

Every organization faces uncertainty globally but not domestically.

Munificence refers to the amount of resources available to support the organization's growth.

Why does environmental complexity lead to organizational complexity? Explain.

The greatest uncertainty for an organization occurs in the simple, unstable environment.

In organizations characterized by very ____ and ____ environments, almost no managers are assigned to integration roles.

The environmental conditions of complexity and change create a greater need to gather information and to respond based on that information.

A soft drink bottler functions in a complex, unstable environment.

Roger Ramon is a militant member of a faculty union at a medium-sized college. When the union's negotiating committee is reporting to a meeting of the faculty, he always finds fault with the work of that committee and strongly advocates striking. When a member of the negotiating committee resigns because of illness, the union's executive committee appoints Roger to take his place. This is an example of:

Chapter 4's Bookmark examines the volatile nature of today's business world and gives some tips for managing in a fast-shifting environment. Which of the following is not one of those tips?

The differences in cognitive and emotional orientations among managers in different functional departments, and the difference in formal structure among these departments is referred to as:

Describe both a mechanistic and an organic organization with which you are familiar (from reading or personal experience), explaining why you have classified them as such. Comment on how well this structure is suited to the environment of each organization.

Discuss differentiation. How is integration connected to differentiation?

A hardware store would be in a complex environment.

Compare and contrast the four quadrants in the framework for environmental uncertainty.

The task environment is:

An organization's domain is:

____ is the quality of collaboration among departments.

Which of the following laws required several types of corporate governance reforms, including better internal monitoring to reduce the risk of fraud, certification of financial results by top executives, and improved measures for internal auditing?

Planning guarantees successful coping with an unstable environment.

Rather than establish buffer departments, a newer approach in many organizations is to drop the buffers and expose the technical core to its uncertain environment.