Exam 14: Foundations of Organisational Structure

You have learned about the traditional and new design options for organisational structures.You have decided that one of the designs developed during the last decade or two is probably the most appropriate for your newly formed organisation. Your new organisation is looking for maximum flexibility.The most appropriate structure is probably the:

An organisation that seeks to eliminate the chain of command and achieve limitless spans of control is the:

A structure that creates dual lines of authority and combines functional and product departmentalisation is the matrix structure.

We-Train-Em has hired you to develop training materials for their seminars.Your first assignment is to write a training manual that will assist new managers in designing an appropriate structure for their part of an organisation.Included in the manual will be information about the key questions that they must answer in deciding about the best organisational structure. One of the questions included in the training manual is,"To what degree are tasks subdivided into separate jobs?" This question addresses the issue of:

What is work specialisation?

Which of the following was NOT suggested in your text as an effective strategy for implementing downsizing?

________ departmentalisation achieves economies of scale by placing people with common skills and orientations into common units.

'Technology' refers to how an organisation transfers its inputs into outputs.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the organic model?

The more that lower-level personnel provide input or are actually given the discretion to make decisions,the more ________ there is.

A major weakness of the bureaucracy is lack of attention to rules.

All things being equal,the wider or larger the span,the more efficient the organisation.

We-Train-Em has hired you to develop training materials for their seminars.Your first assignment is to write a training manual that will assist new managers in designing an appropriate structure for their part of an organisation.Included in the manual will be information about the key questions that they must answer in deciding about the best organisational structure. ________ is addressed by asking the question,"On what basis will jobs be grouped together?"

Specialisation creates subunit conflicts in which functional-unit goals can override the overall goals of the organisation.

Three key dimensions to any organisation's environment have been found.Which of the following is not one of these key dimensions?

Functional departmentalisation's strength lies in its focus on assembling teams of specialists.

The degree to which tasks are subdivided into separate jobs is termed:

Which one of the following problems is most likely to occur in a matrix structure?

The structure that creates dual lines of authority and combines functional and product departmentalisation is the:

In simple structures,one can expect to find: