Exam 8: Organization Structure and Design: Its All About Working Together

The four types of divisional structures are product, geographical, customer, and process.

The lack of communications between functional departments in a functional structure often results in which of the following?

Telecommuting is likely to become more popular in the future.

__________ is the process of arranging people and resources to work together to accomplish goals.

Network strategies implemented through the use of information technologies create __________.

__________ splits one job between two people.*

__________ teams combine members from different departments to work on a common task.

A matrix organization combines a functional structure and a division structure.

Of the following, which may you learn from an organization chart?

Good Bank Inc. has many branches. They are all managed by branch managers who have loans, investments, operations, and trust managers reporting directly to them. This is an example of a __________ structure.*

A __________ organization would have a __________ span of control.*

A basic principal of management is that, "When delegating, authority should equal responsibility."

__________ groups together jobs and activities that serve the same customers or clients.

Describe a division structure and the various substructures within it.

The teams that make up the matrix structure are called __________ teams.

Separating people to perform different tasks that aggregate into a unified whole is known as __________.

The Society for Human Resource Management reported that after the economy suffered a round of massive layoffs, human resource professionals observed in their firms a decrease in workplace eavesdropping as well as a decrease in gossip and rumors about downsizing.

What is a matrix structure? What are the two structures from which it is formed? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this type of structure?

Matrix structures offer all of the following advantages EXCEPT:

__________ is (are) essential to the performance of a virtual structure.