Exam 8: Structuring Organizations for Todays Challenges

An informal organization can be a valuable asset to managers attempting to create an environment of harmony among workers and establish the corporate culture.

During the past six years, the marketing department manager at Creative Concepts International made a strong push to hire mover/shaker professionals that had superior performance records prior to joining this company. It didn't take long for these enthusiastic marketers to recognize the many talents within their department. They marveled at how much they were like each other and how they seemed to agree with each other's work styles and ideas. After a while, it became difficult for others in the organization to present to this group. If the idea did not originate within the marketing department, marketers did not give it much credence. Management counselors would describe this phenomenon as ______

Departmentalization by function groups employees based on similar skills, expertise, or resource use.

An advantage of departmentalization is groupthink.

According to Weber, a bureaucrat is a middle manager whose job is to implement top management's orders.

Most companies are no longer self-sufficient or self-contained.

The more standardized the work, the wider the span of control.

Organizing the structure of the company means deciding how many jobs need to be done and who is responsible for doing them.

Today's preference for flat rather than tall organization structures is mainly due to a flat organization's ability to:

__________ refer to those functions that an organization does as well as, or better than, any other organization in the world

JayLo Corporation has experienced rapid growth during its five years of existence. While still relatively small, JayLo is now big enough that Jessa, the firm's CEO, has decided to organize the firm into functional departments. Jessa can likely expect which of the following to occur?

Campbell is a middle manager for a bureaucratic organization. According to Max Weber's views on bureaucratic organizations, Campbell's function within the organization is to:

Line organizations follow Fayol's traditional management rules.

Max Weber's principles of organization were similar to those of Henri Fayol.

A firm's formal organization would be better suited than its informal organization to:

Cardinal Foods is a wholesaler serving grocery stores. High-tech communications allows Cardinal to work closely with its suppliers and customers in real time. Networking allows these organizations to operate more efficiently.

An organization that has contact people at the top and the chief executive officer at the bottom is known as a(n):

The degree to which an organization allows lower-level managers to make decisions reflects the degree of decentralization.

The process of setting up individual departments to do specialized tasks is called job specialization.

The virtual corporation does all its business online with partners considered a permanent part of the network.