Exam 12: Implementing Strategy Through Organization

PeopleFinder, a start-up social media network, is a decentralized organization. This means that the organization promotes flexibility and reduces bureaucratic costs; lower-level managers are authorized to make on-the-spot decisions.

The term used to describe how people learn an organization's culture and way of behaving in the organization is:

Flat organizational structures are less flexible and tend to resist change.

When a company engages in delayering, it may be necessary to:

All employees participate in a project team within a _____ structure. They are known as two-boss employees.

In manufacturing, functional strategy usually centers on improving efficiency and quality.

The need for integrating mechanisms is greater when a company's structure is more complex.

Organizational structure can be defined as:

Effective organizational design can allow a company to obtain a competitive advantage, but it has no impact on profitability.

Identify and discuss the three building blocks of organizational structure.

In a successful company, the purpose of a control system is to:

Effective strategy implementation is very important for cost leaders, but it is of less importance to differentiators.

One of the main differences between a product team and a team in a matrix structure is that a matrix team is more permanent than a team in a product structure.

In the multidivisional structure, each division typically contains only a partial set of value chain activities.

To a large degree, any organization's tasks are a function of its:

When companies become too tall and the chain of command too long, strategic managers tend to lose control over the hierarchy and, subsequently, their strategies.

To reduce costs, companies pursuing a cost leadership strategy prefer to use _____ to closely monitor and evaluate functional performance.

Organizational culture is:

In a related multidivisional structure, the concept of corporate culture is meaningless.

An organization with a centralized structure has a potential for creating high bureaucracy.