Exam 15: Organizational Design and Structure

Magical Cloves is a cake shop.It is co-owned by Sarah and Zeba, professional chefs, who create all the cake recipes themselves and directly supervise the staff at the store.No decisions can be made by the staff without prior approval from Sarah or Zeba.Given this information, it is evident that Magical Cloves is an example of a(n)_____.​

Which of the following is a planned strategy to reduce the size of an organization?​

In weak or deficient organizations, a great deal of conflict is evident as some departments work against one another rather than for the strategies and goals of the organization as a whole.

In which of the following ways has the basic design dimensions been affected by advanced information-processing technologies?​

A temporary set of organizations designed to come together swiftly to exploit an apparent market opportunity is called a:​

The strength of the machine bureaucracy is:​

The three organizational parts of the _____ are those that create demand, produce product, and provide support.​

An organizational structure may be weak or deficient if it is out of alignment with its contextual variables, in which case:​

What are the variables Joan Woodward, Charles Perrow, and James Thompson considered in their approaches to understand traditional organizational technologies?