Exam 15: Organizational Structure

The biggest weakness of a functional structure is that:

Many restructuring efforts are designed to remove one or more organizational layers to reduce costs.

The degree to which a job requires a number of different activities involving a number of different skills and talents is referred to as:

Which of the following is Trueabout work specialization?

The organization as a whole has no influence on employee attitudes and behavior.

Homely Furniture is a custom manufacturer of hand-crafted furniture. The company has 94 locations throughout the country and relies on decentralized decision making to meet the needs of the dynamic environment and customer needs. Which of the following approaches to organizational design is likely to be appropriate for Homely Furniture?

Distinguish between tall and flat organizational structures, and state at least two disadvantages of tall organizational structures.

Although matrix structures have been around since the 1960s, the number of organizations using them has declined because organizations prefer to work in groups rather than in teams.

Differentiate between functional and multi-divisional structures. Provide a diagram of each.

What effect do stable and dynamic environments have on organizational structure?

Organic organizations encourage lateral communication.

At Cool Clothes, Inc., there is a total focus on providing care and satisfaction to each customer. In the Major Clients division, each manager is assigned 3 employees to supervise, whereas in the Product Assembly division, each manager supervises about 15 employees. The Major Clients division's managers can be described as having _____ as opposed to _____ for the Product Assembly division managers.

A _____ span of control creates a _____ organization structure.

The most common kind of restructuring in recent years has been a "flattening" of the organization.

At ABC Manufacturing, employees are grouped according to their expertise in an area. All marketing employees are in one department, all finance employees are grouped in another department, and similarly, all human resources and manufacturing employees are in their respective departments. Which of the following structures does ABC Manufacturing use?

Describe the three multi-divisional structures. Draw their organizational charts.

Which of the following structures generally develop from companies with functional structures whose interests and goals become too diverse for that structure to handle?

As companies become larger, they tend to use a combination of specialization, formalization, and centralization to control their activities, thereby becoming more mechanistic in nature.

When Happy Feet Shoes, Inc., groups its business units according to where they do business-such as North America division, Europe division, Asia division, and Africa division-it is creating which of the following organizational structures?

The method by which an organization transforms its inputs into outputs refers to its: