Exam 15: Organizational Design and Structure

The emphasis in tomorrow's organizations will be on organizing around processes.

The prime coordinating mechanism in an adhocracy is mutual adjustment.

An organization that faces considerable environmental uncertainty and rapid change is more likely to be successful with:

Identify four bases of departmentation or differentiation.

The faculty of a university comprises which of Mintzberg's fundamental elements of the organization?

The choice of structure for managing an international business is generally based on choices concerning which set of the following three factors?

The prime coordinating mechanism for the professional bureaucracy is standardization of skills.

Complexity refers to:

The domain of the organization is particularly important because it is defined by the organization.

The strongest method of horizontal integration is through:

Match the following: -Mechanistic Structure

Which differentiation could give an organization political and legal advantages in the market place?

A mechanistic structure is most reflected when:

A highly bureaucratized organization, such as the Social Security Administration, exhibits all of the following characteristics except:

Which of the following would NOT be a symptom of poor alignment between the structure and contextual variables of an organization?

Emerging organizational structures will emphasize all of the following except:

The difference between the authority and responsibility in the organizational hierarchy is called:

The degree of differentiation most affected by employee's specialized knowledge, education, or training is:

Rules, procedures, liaison persons, and task forces are integrative devices that link organization parts and programs.

Match the following: -Specialization