Exam 15: Organizational Design and Structure

Designing and building linkage coordination mechanisms is known as specialization.

Technical and support staffs make up the higher levels in the hierarchy of authority of a large hospital.

Organizational design is a process of specifying structural features of an organization. This process begins with:

Which of the following is NOT a major contextual variable of organizational design?

An organization that faces considerable environmental uncertainty and rapid change is more likely to be successful with:

Explain why increasing organizational differentiation requires greater integration.

A job description is an example of formalization.

Which of the following departments would probably have the most flexible structure?

A centralized form of organization that emphasizes the upper echelon and direct supervision under Mintzberg's configurations is the:

The most appropriate measure of organization size when considering alternative structural designs is:

Match the following: -Globalization

The emphasis in tomorrow's organizations will be on organizing around processes.

The degree to which an organization has official rules, regulations, and procedures is called:

What are the defining characteristics of the Woodward, Perrow, and Thompson approaches to technology.

Generally, the flatter an organization, the more vertical integration mechanisms are needed.

All of the following are emerging organizational structures except:

The strongest method of horizontal integration is through:

The domain of an organization refers to anything outside the boundaries of the organization.

For virtual organizations to be successful, they need to focus on developing trust, an identity, and a high standard of ethics.

For each of the five structural configurations, identify an appropriate integrative mechanism.