Exam 11: Organizational Structure, Systems, and Processes

Discuss the issue of people and rewards solutions in global firms.

Regardless of the actual formal structure, those firms that foster ________ relationships are more likely to see achievement of desired results beyond what they could normally expect.

What are incremental innovations and discontinuous innovations?

The overarching strategic management process flows from vision to goals and objectives and then to the ________, which sets out how these goals and objectives are to be achieved.

The professional partnership transfers ownership and shifts all local management responsibility to local facilities.

The ________ perspective involves strategy for growth and risk when viewed from the shareholder's or owner's perspective.

The network structure is a hybrid between the functional and multidivisional structures.

The functional organizational model can exacerbate problems in ________ firms.

A reward of the ________ manufacturing method is that errors are detected quickly.

What are the three Cs of strategy communication? Briefly explain.

When a functional unit focuses too narrowly on its own goals and operations and loses sight of other functional activities, customer needs, and corporate objectives, it is said to be acting like a functional ________.

Major implementation levers are usually categorized as one of the following except ________.

Systems and processes make it possible to manage all of the following except ________.

Patching may involve which of the following activities?

Lean manufacturing allows firms to reduce the "road blocks and speed bumps" that get in the way of their ability to quickly add value.

With ________ controls, rewards are tied to narrowly defined financial criteria.

What is an implementation lever?

Any of the functions in a value chain can be organized as a unit in a functional structure.

All of the following are elements of an organization's structure except ________.

What is the matrix structure?