CHAPTER 3: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES
(Difficulty: E = easy, M = medium, H = hard)
(H) 1. According to Grinnell and Apple, organizational restructuring was needed because
management was unhappy with technical skills though projects were being completed
within time and cost.
(E) 2. Which of the following is not one of the three critical terms to consider when looking
at organizational workflow?
D. Accountability
(E) 3. Accountability can be defined as:
D. Pure responsibility
(E) 4. In which of the following structures is budgeting and cost control easier to perform?
D. Weak matrix
(E) 5. In which organizational form is there quite often no customer focal point?
D. Weak matrix
D. Weak matrix
(E) 7. In which organizational form is it highly unlikely that project management would be a
career path?
D. Weak matrix
(H) 8. In which organizational form does the project manager have the greatest authority over
the assigned resources?
A. Traditional
(M) 9. In which organizational form are the formal and informal organizations well
established?
D. Weak matrix
(H) 10. Which of the following is not one of the integration mechanisms considered when
creating work integration positions?
D. Direct contact
(M) 11. With departmental project management, the person assigned to head up the project is
called a:
A. Project head
(H) 12. In departmental project management, the person that ultimately ends up managing the
project, assuming several departments are involved, is the:
A. Project manager
(M) 13. With the project expeditor organizational structure, the expeditor is usually brought on
board:
(M) 15. With a line-staff organizational structure, department managers will readily accept
instructions from the project manager.
(M) 16. In a line-staff organizational structure, the person heading up the project is called the:
A. Project supervisor
(M) 17. In line-staff project management, the ultimate authority on the project resides with the
division manager.
(E) 18. Other than the traditional structure, which organizational form has strong
D. Weak Matrix
(M) 19. Which of the following organizational forms provides the least career path
D. Weak Matrix
(E) 20. Which organizational structure generally retains team members long after they are
needed?
D. Weak Matrix
(E) 21. Matrix structures allow for workers to be shared on multiple projects and at a lower
than usual cost.
(E) 22. In which organizational form do we usually have the best balance among the time, cost
and performance constraints on a project?
A. Traditional
(M) 23. In which organizational form do we usually have a sharing of authority and
responsibility?
A. Traditional
(M) 24. Before becoming a project manager within a matrix organization, training should be
provided in all of the following except:
A. Matrix operations
(H) 25. In a strong matrix structure, employees take daily direction from: