Exam 14: Organization Structure

Matrix organization facilitates the utilization of highly specialized staff and equipment and may reduce redundancy in comparison to the product and project forms of departmentalization.

Is "bureaucracy" bad? Has the term always had its current common meaning?

In large organizations,___________ arrangements are advantageous because physical separation of activities makes centralized coordination difficult.

If you were to design an organization based upon Weber's concept of bureaucracy,what would be the key points you would consider? When would you advise the use of such an organization?

All jobs contain some degree of the right to make decisions within prescribed limits.

How would you determine the appropriate level of authority to delegate in a given situation?

In Japan,the mechanistic form of doing business is termed keiretsu.

Sociotechnical systems theory suggests that production processes consist of social and technical dimensions that exert a(n)___________ influence on one another.

___________ concerns the extent to which jobs are specialized.

A decreased span of control may be warranted when the positions being supervised require _________.

A matrix organization would typically overlay an "offset functional structure" over a traditional functional structure encouraging individual positions to simultaneously work and report to multiple functional areas.

Organic design proponents believe that integration can be achieved through the creation of rules,procedures,plans,and a hierarchical chain of command that places managers in the position of integrators.

Fayol saw bureaucracy as _________.

In a ___________ organization,each product unit can share the specialized resource with other units,rather than duplicating it to provide independent coverage for each.

What is a functional organization,its advantages and disadvantages? Provide examples of when the functional form may be preferred.

Organization structure results from managerial decisions about four important attributes of all organizations.These attributes include: _________.

Dividing work by the natural sequence of the work the organization is termed horizontal specialization.

Functional departmentalization allows personnel to develop total expertise in researching,manufacturing,and distributing a product line.

Divisional structures often reduce redundancy because each division conducts its own specific research,engineering,marketing,production,and all other functions necessary to do business.

As the number of subordinates increases ___________ the number of interpersonal relationships _________.