Exam 9: Organization Size, Life Cycle, and Decline

High formalization is most closely associated with which of the following?

Formalization refers to rules, procedures, and written documents that prescribe the rights and duties of employees.

Which of the following characterizes the formalization stage of the life cycle?

When clan control works, bureaucratic control is still needed.

Which of the following is the first stage of decline?

How should personnel ratios be managed in a small firm?

Explain the patterns found in the study of personnel ratios for administrative, clerical, and professional support staff.

In 2008, with sales declining and the stock plummeting, Borders' then-CEO told a newspaper reporter who interviewed him about the company's situation: "We're not in trouble; we're not in trouble at all." Borders was in the ____ stage of decline.

Despite the increasing size of many companies, the economic vitality of the U.S. is tied to small and midsize businesses.

At Shizugawa Elementary School and Toyota Motors, bureaucratic control was carried to such an extreme that it created problems.

Describe the life cycle of a specific organization that has gone through at least three stages of the organizational life cycle. In your answer explain the crisis this organization is now facing, and how you would recommend that it overcome its crisis.

Requirements of the market control strategy are tradition, shared values and beliefs, and trust.

Rules and standard procedures as developed by Weber were to:

Some warning signs for organizational _____ include excess administrative and support staff, cumbersome administrative procedures, lack of effective communication and coordination, and outdated organizational structure.

A condition in which a substantial, absolute decrease in an organization's resource base occurs over a period of time is referred to as:

In contrast to large businesses, small business is characterized by:

Which of the following is not a type of authority that could explain the creation and control of a large corporation?

There are ten stages of life cycle development that an organization must generally go through in order to reach the final stage when rewards are personal and aimed at those who contribute to organizational success.

Bo Burlingham, editor-at-large at Inc.magazine, believes that leaders of "small giants" ought to be intimately connected with the community in which they do business.

Describe Weber's three types of authority that explains the creation and control of larger organizations.