Exam 11: Organizational Structure

Which of the following is NOT a strategic advantage of a divisional organizational structure?

The temporary nature of the product-team structure's teams results in:

________ was popularized by Hammer and Champy and is one of the more popular methods by which organizations worldwide have been undergoing restructuring efforts to remain competitive in the twenty-first century.

______ is having an outside company manage numerous routine business management activities usually done by employees of the company.

The _______ combines the advantages of functional specialization with the advantages of product-project specialization.

______ is an organization structured around the idea of sharing knowledge,seeking knowledge and creating opportunities to create new knowledge.

Major efforts to improve traditional organizational structures seek to _______ and _______.One key emphasis in large organizations is to redefine the role of corporate headquarters.

Twenty-first-century corporations reflect:

Management icon Jack Welch coined the term _________ to characterize his vision of what he wanted GE to become.

The narrow technical expertise achieved through __________ can lead to limited perspectives in the priorities of the functional units.

To avoid the deficiencies that might arise from a permanent matrix structure,some firms are accomplishing particular strategic tasks by means of a "temporary" or "flexible":

Delegation ________ in response to varied competitive environments.

The _______ is one in which functional and staff personnel are assigned to both a basic functional area and to a project or product manager.

A ________ is one where there is an owner and usually a few employees where the arrangement of tasks,responsibilities and communication is highly informal and accomplished through direct supervision.

_______ of all industry either operates globally or will soon do so.

A _________ is an organizational structure that allows people to interface with others throughout the organization without need to wait for a hierarchy to regulate that interface across functional,business and geographic boundaries.

__________ is used in a simple structure.

The need for global coordination and innovation ________ to get the right mix of local initiative,information flow,leadership and corporate culture.

The result of _______ is coordination,communication and decision-making functions being accomplished quickly and easily,making traditional organizational structures look slow,inefficient and noncompetitive.

Simple structures encourage employees to: