Exam 8: Fundamentals of Organizing

John is responsible for creating the work schedule for the employees he manages. Those employees are actually members of the ________ John manages.

The ________ of an organization refers to the extent to which firms use lateral subdivisions or specialties within an organization.

Sabrina is a supervisor currently frustrated with the limited connections she has with the employees in her department. She has recently faced the reality decision making and job assignments are suffering for some because she does not have enough time to communicate with all employees during the day. She has examined the similarity and complexity of the actions her employees perform, as well as the amount of time the employees jobs overlap. By doing this, which of the following organizing concepts is she examining?

Gizmo Sales, a company that sells office supplies to companies in Atlanta, GA, has organized the business horizontally into departments named North Atlanta, South Atlanta, and Downtown Atlanta. This indicates that Gizmo has departmentalized on the basis of ________.

You can see a company's informal organizational structure represented primarily on the firm's organizational chart.

________ is defined as the orderly arrangement of group effort to provide unity of action in the pursuit of a common purpose.

Discuss the connection between the planning and organizing functions of management.

________ developed a formula for determining the number of possible relationships between a manager and subordinates when the number of subordinates is known.

Which of the following is true about departmentalizing by matrix?

Span of management refers to the number of ________.

According to the contingency viewpoint to designing span of management, the appropriate span of management widens when ________.

If the Willis Tower in Chicago was designed to depict each floor as a level of management we would say the organization's height is ________.

Which of the following is an advantage of functional departmentalizing?

Bureaucracy can be characterized as a management system with detailed procedures, rules, and a clearly outlined organizational hierarchy with impersonal relationships among organization members.

The second and third steps of the organizing process focus on the ________.

According to the contingency viewpoint to designing span of management, the appropriate span of management narrows when ________.

A poultry farm that uses lateral specialties within its departments is said to be practicing ________ dimensioning.

Andrew is a mid-level manager with three organizational levels above him and two below him. He has four analysts reporting directly to him. Using Graicunas's formula, calculate the total number of possible relationships between Andrew and his subordinates.

Traditionally, an organization chart is constructed in a ________ form.

Discuss the five main steps in the organizing process.