Exam 14: Organizational Structure

Functional departmentation is preferable to product departmentation as the organization increases in size.

An alliance of independent companies share skills,costs,and access to one another's markets in what type of organization?

Discuss the nature of the relationship between environment and strategy.Be sure to describe each step in the process.

The most cited advantage of functional departmentation is ________.

Researchers have been learning that the most successful structure for achieving ambidexterity was one in which an innovative unit maintained its own ________,structure,and processes and at the same time was ________ with the organization by senior management.

In ascending order of elaboration,three methods of achieving integration include the use of task forces,liaison roles,and full-time integrators.

Vertical integration can reduce and increase risk.

Employees of an organization with a matrix structure may be trying to please two different superiors at the same time and experience an inter-role conflict.

Functional structures tend to be organically structured.

The development of an association with a higher status organization is a good way for an organization to develop ________.

What structure is an attempt to capitalize simultaneously on the strengths of both functional and product departmentation?

Differentiation is a natural and necessary consequence of the vertical division of labour.

Linda is a new Chief Operating Officer at Rolling Corporation,a 30-year-old manufacturer of aluminum truck wheels and axles.One of her assignments is to lead a strategy team to figure out how to structure the company in order to most effectively support the growth of a new,experimental division whose mandate is to develop innovative friction reduction systems for aircraft landing gear.She wants to be sure that Rolling Corp.continues to excel in the trucking industry and,at the same time,lets the new division flourish.She will most likely need to create a(n)________ organization.

What is helpful for introducing innovations?

A virtual organization maintains complete strategic control.

Which term tends to describe mechanistic structures?

In general,bigger organizations are more decentralized and ________.

Functional departmentation may be based on division of the organization according to

As innovative units mature,they often tend to become more

The more differentiated an organization is,the more integration it requires.