Exam 4: Asection 3: Global Forces: How Is Canada Faring in the Global Village

The degree to which organizational tasks are subdivided into separate jobs is referred to as:

Virtual organizations have al of the following potential advantages except:

Re-engineering typically involves all of the following except:

Routine technologies are most compatible with:

All of the following have been blamed for the failure of many downsizings to create positive results, except:

Studies have found that layoff announcements made by large corporations that were undergoing restructuring and consolidation were followed by increases in share prices. This is an example of ___________ forces.

An organization that maximizes its fluidity, flatness, and integratedness with the environment is referred to as:

Imagine two organizations with the same total number of seven members, but with different spans of control. In Organization X, there is the president, 2 managers, and 4 subordinates. In Organization Y, 6 employees are all members of one team who report to one boss, the president.) We can describe Organization X as having:

A perspective of organizations called ______________ theory argues that organizations are driven to incorporate practices and procedures defined by current concepts of work and those accepted in society.

The number of managers and levels in the organizational hierarchy is referred to as:

In general terms, a narrow span of control tends to reflect a _______ organization

It has been found that downsizing among industry members is more likely to occur when industry leaders downsize. This is an example of _______________ forces.

The classical school of management thought is based implicitly on a conception of organizations that employs a _________ metaphor.

The activity of outsourcing is useful for all of the following except:

All of the following are defining elements of organizational structure except:

The division of jobs into simple, repetitive tasks

All of the following will influence organizational structure except:

A credit agency decided to scrap the traditional method of processing credit applications which was organized around specialized, compartmentalized tasks. They redesigned the work around the process itself of completing a credit application. This is an example of

A central benefit of formalization is:

There are fundamentally two different kinds of specialization referred to as: