Exam 16: Organizational Design and Structure

A ________ is a group of functions created to specialize in making and selling a particular kind of good or service.

________ specify how people and groups should respond to specific opportunity and problems.

As the number of levels in an organization's hierarchy increases, the span of control of the organization's managers widens.

The responsibility of corporate managers is to supervise and oversee the managers of the various divisions.

A ________ is a permanent group, made up of representatives from two or more functions, that meets regularly.

An advantage of a product structure is that it allows a company to increase its division of labor so that it can ________.

________ consist of people from different functions who are permanently assigned to work full time on a team to bring a new good or service to market.

According to Charles Perrow, ________ is the degree to which programmed solutions are available to people or functional groups to solve the problems they encounter.

A team is a temporary (ad hoc) group set up to solve a specific problem; a task force is a permanent group made up of representatives from two or more functions.

In a ________, divisions are broken down by region.

A decentralized structure of authority that allows employees to respond to each situation in a more unique fashion is BEST used in ________.

Organizational design is the formal system of task and reporting relationships that controls, coordinates, and motivates employees so that they cooperate and work together to achieve an organization's goals.

A company operating within a ________ focuses on one functional activity in which it excels, such as research and development, and then outsources the rest of its other functional activities to other companies.

Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of building an organization around a divisional structure?

A company operating within a network structure focuses on one functional activity in which it excels, such as product design, and then outsources the rest of its other functional activities to other companies.

The hierarchy of authority exemplifies the relative authority that each manager has - extending from the CEO at the top down through the middle managers and first-line managers, to the nonmanagerial employees who actually make the goods or provide the services.

Explain how Nike uses the network structure.

What is standardization?

Which of the following is NOT a major category of contingencies affecting organizational design?

Task analyzability is the number of new or unexpected problems or situations that a person or functional group encounters while performing tasks or jobs.