Exam 15: Organizational Structure

An entrepreneur employs 20 people in a simple structure.However,the company will likely employ over 200 people in production,sales,engineering and administration within a few years due to the growing success of the company's new products.The entrepreneur likes the simple structure and wants to avoid other forms of departmentalization.Explain to the entrepreneur why his company would be more effective through other forms of departmentalization as it grows larger.

One problem with the team-based organizational structure is that employees may experience more stress due to ambiguity of their roles.

Which form of departmentalization organizes employees around specific skills or other resources?

Which coordinating mechanism is typically most important among people working in hospital surgical operations?

Employees at a large call centre perform repetitive tasks (low variety)by documenting mailing addresses from customers who call the centre.The work process is the same for all inquiries to all call centre staff members (low analyzability).The best organizational structure for this work unit:

Which of the following is a coordinating mechanism?

Most organizations begin with centralized structures and become more decentralized as they grow larger and divide work into more specialized functions.

Which form of departmentalization tends to have a very flat hierarchy,little formalization and organizes employees around work processes?

Formal hierarchy is the most effective coordinating mechanism where employees work in non-routine and ambiguous situations.

The current trend is for companies to shift their divisionalized structures away from:

An organizational chart mainly illustrates which type of coordinating mechanism?

Team-based organizational structures are usually found:

Companies are more likely to form network structures when:

A team-based organizational structure has:

The two fundamental requirements of all organizational structures are divisionalization and decentralization.

One of the defining characteristics of a functional organizational structure is that it:

What type of departmentalization should a large multinational organization adopt?

Integrator roles do which of the following?

One problem with departmentalization is that it discourages coordination through informal communication.

A software design team performs work that has high variety and low analyzability.This team would work best with which of the following organizational structure characteristics?