Exam 15: Organizational Structure, Culture, and Development

The Consolidated Cookie Company's New Jersey factory has a separate unit that makes their chocolate crunch cookies and another unit that is completely responsible for all operations in producing CCC's lemon meringue cookies. The CCC New Jersey factory has a __________ organizational structure.

Organizational culture has been found to be influenced by

A matrix organization is likely to have a __________ structure.

Matrix organizations are most successful when they

List and describe Hofstede's five dimensions of organizational culture.

A survey can have a positive effect on worker attitudes only if management

According to Perrow, technology adjusts to the organizational structure.

Functional structures are based on types of products or customers.

The failure of quality circles can often be traced to lack of management support.

Hector and Janet have both been temporarily removed from their regular jobs to work with a group charged with planning and organizing an open house for their organization. These two people are part of a

Which of the following does organizational structure NOT refer to?

In centralized organizational structures, decision making power is dispersed at each departmental level.

The last step in process consultation is

Describe various dimensions of organizational structure.

The fact that each worker in a bureaucracy has a well-defined set of tasks to perform represents which of the following bureaucracy characteristics?

Bureaucracies

One problem with bureaucracies is that certain individuals are promoted because of who they know rather than how well they perform their jobs.

Organizational development

The "impersonality" of bureaucracies refers to the fact that

The organizational development technique where the OD practitioner works as a teacher to help the organization to solve its own problems is known as