Deck 4: Asection 5: Global Forces: How Is Canada Faring in the Global Village

Question 1

Reengineering is essentially the same notion as downsizing.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Social specialization refers to the division of jobs into simple, repetitive tasks.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Learning forces are pressure for organizations to imitate the behaviours of industry leaders.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Routine technologies are better suited to innovative, organic structures that do not allow formality and rules to govern activity.

Question 5

Frederick Taylor's philosophy of scientific management advocated a high degree of job specialization

Question 6

There is research evidence indicating that organizations that engaged in an employee downsizing (that is, terminated at least 5% of the workforce combined with little change in plant and equipment costs) did not outperform other organizations in their industry

Question 7

Organizations can become more "virtual" by shedding some of their noncore functions and outsourcing these to affiliated organizations

Question 8

The open-systems approach to understanding organizations is based on the metaphor of the organization as a living organism.

Question 9

If there is any consistent pattern in the sweeping changes to corporate architecture, it has been the delayering of organizational hierarchies.

Question 10

A narrow span of control tends to reflect a tall organization, while a wide span of control tends to reflect a flat organization.