Exam 7: Organizing and Delegating Work

What answers the question, "How do we organize to meet our mission and strategy?"

What are the four steps in the delegation process?

Essentially every multinational corporation (MNC) has to be designed with some type of __________ departmentalization.

Which of the following is considered to be generally easier in mechanistic organizations?

Terrance, who owns a service station, just told one of his mechanics to start working on the customer's vehicle.This is not delegating.

Lito works for a business that is part of a large corporation with many diverse business lines that operate autonomously.Lito's business designs and manufactures playground equipment, but the corporation also owns asphalt paving companies, a producer of modular housing, a small amusement park, and a real estate firm.Given this, it seems likely that the parent corporation that owns this diverse portfolio of businesses uses a __________ structure.

Which form of authority is the unsanctioned way of getting the job done?

An organization chart shows the informal authority structure of an organization.

Which type of departmentalization is most widely used in small organizations?

Job design is the process of _____________.

Zach is part of a team that does not have a designated manager; the team plans, organizes, leads, and controls to achieve its goal.Zach's team members commonly elect their own members and evaluate each other.On what type of team is Zach most likely working?

At the beginning of a new project, Edward creates a to-do list for his project team for the entire length of the project and posts it on the wall for all to see.What is wrong with this decision?

Job design affects job satisfaction and productivity.

Which of the following is not a priority-determination question?

Sarah is the manager of a store.As the holiday season approaches, Sarah decides that the store needs to be decorated.She knows Stephanie is creative, so she assigns Stephanie the task of decorating the store.This is an example of __________.

What authority arises from patterns of relationships and communication that evolve as employees interact and communicate?

Give one example in which a mechanistic structure would thrive and one example in which an organic structure would thrive.

Internal departmentalization approaches include product, customer, or territory departmentalization.

The vertical lines on an organization chart show _____________.

Telling employees to perform tasks that are a part of their job design is ________.