Exam 10: Managing Organizational Structure and Culture

As Scott was developing his consulting company,he decided to organize the various tasks into two distinct job classifications,"consultants" and "technicians".This was an example of:

The challenge facing all companies is to find the one best way to design the organization.

The degree to which a manager feels that his or her job is "meaningful" because of the way in which the job affects other people is known as:

The extent to which a job requires the worker to use a wide range of knowledge and abilities is known as:

Organizational culture is shaped by the personal and professional characteristics of people within the organization.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of grouping functions into "divisions" that focus their efforts on the production and marketing of specific product lines.

The culture at ZZZ's Slumber Lumber is characterized by strict hierarchical authority,close supervision,and the employees have little incentive to work beyond the minimum required.What type of culture exists at ZZZ's Slumber Lumber?

When managers organize divisions according to the types of customer to whom they market their products,this is known as a product structure.

A product structure frees corporate managers from the need to supervise directly each division's day-to-day operations.

A committee of managers from different functions or divisions is formed to solve a specific,mutual problem.What they established is called:

An organization with a highly skilled workforce that work in teams will exhibit all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:

The degree to which a job allows the worker to schedule the tasks of the job and to decide how to carry out these tasks is known as:

Because of organizational culture,employees ___________ organizational values and norms.

The process by which managers decide how to organize the tasks that workers need to do into the jobs that are needed to produce the organization's goods or services is known as:

Giving lower-level managers and nonmanagerial employees the right to make important decisions about how to use organizational resources is referred to as:

Another name for the organization's hierarchy of authority is:

In a tall,centralized organization norms focus respecting traditions and predictability and stability are desired goals.

The relationship between all of the departments of the organization is called which type of structure of the organization?

The process by which managers design the working relationship among the workers of the organization is known as:

The slower the external environment changes and the greater the uncertainty within it,the greater are the problems managers face in trying to gain access to scarce resources.