Exam 8: Fundamentals of Organizing

What is meant by the horizontal dimensioning of an organization? Also explain the terms "departments" and "departmentalizing," and list the various modes of departmentalizing an organization.

________ skill is the ability to establish orderly uses for resources within the management system.

Alistair Fashions, a clothing manufacturer, uses an assembly-line to manufacture clothes whereby different groups of workers specialize in particular tasks - cutting fabric, finishing sleeves, making collars, fixing zippers, sewing buttons, etc. Which organizing system is being used at Alistair?

Which of the following is the last step in the organizing process?

According to the contingency viewpoint to designing span of management, which of the following situations would warrant a relatively wide span of control?

Formal structure is ________.

Span of management refers to the number of organizational levels below that of a particular manager.

According to Fayol's guidelines for organizing resources, managers should ________.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of departmentalizing by matrix?

Which of the following is the main criticism of Weber's bureaucracy model?

Which of the following is an advantage of departmentalizing by matrix?

Joe and Jim are planning to open an Italian restaurant in a St. Louis suburb. When the two of them meet to decide what tasks need to be completed in order to meet their vision and then group like tasks into jobs, which of the following management functions are they undertaking?

Pixel Technologies, a manufacturer of electronic products and cell phones, has divided the business into two divisions - Electronics Retailers and Cell Phone Retailers. This indicates that Pixel Technologies has departmentalized on the basis of ________.

According to Follett, coordination can be attained with the least difficulty through ________.

According to Fayol's guidelines for organizing resources, a manager should take steps to avoid ________.

Which of the following is true about the traditional organization chart constructed in pyramid form?

Explain the connection that exists between organizational height and the span of management.

The formal structure of an organization evolves naturally and tends to be molded by individual norms and values and social relationships.

Fred is a Grade D manager in Lighthouse Infrastructure and manages a small team of eight engineers. The company has 15 Grade D managers. He worked his way up from the lowest grade, Grade E, where he was one of 52 line managers and hopes to be promoted to Grade C soon, which would make him one of the six vice-presidents in the company. However, breaking into Grade B, comprising three presidents, will be a challenge. Only the CEO and COO occupy Grade A. Which of the following numbers represents Fred's span of management?

________ organizations are also called project organizations.