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its structure?
Topic: Functional structure
80.
Which of the following statements is
true
about functional organization structure?
81.
The biggest weakness of a functional structure is that:
82.
Gabrielle is the West Coast manager of Umbrellas Are Us. Other managers are in charge
of the East Coast, South, and Central divisions. Her brother, Ryan is a marketing manager
at a different firm who enjoys watching sports with the finance and operations managers
from his company. Gabrielle most likely works in a company with a ______ structure, while
Ryan most likely works in a company with a ______ structure.
83.
Which of the following is a bureaucratic organizational form in which employees are
grouped into divisions around products, geographic regions, or clients?
84.
Which of the following structures generally develop from companies with functional
structures whose interests and goals become too diverse for that structure to handle?
85.
When Springfield Motor Company groups its business units around the different lines of
cars such as the Aardvark, Bearcat, and Cyclops, which of the following structures is it
creating?
86.
A firm has diversified to the point that the products it sells are very different and managing
them has become overwhelming. Which of the following structures would help this firm?
87.
When Happy Feet Shoes, Inc., groups its business units according to where they do
business—such as North America division, Europe division, Asia division, and Africa
division—it is creating which of the following organizational structures?
88.
A large company recently adopted a structure in order to give its top managers more
responsibility and flexibility. The company is now structured around four customer
groupings: consumers, corporations, small and mid-sized businesses, and government and
educational buyers. Which of the following organizational structures has this company
created?
89.
More complex forms of organizational design that try to take advantage of two types of
structures at the same time are called _____ structures.
90.
At M & M Technology, employees are grouped according to their functional expertise as
well as the different key product lines that they are working on. Hence, the company has
simultaneously created a combination of a functional and a product structure. Which of
the structures is this an example of?
91.
The matrix structure gives each employee _____ chain(s) of command.
92.
The process of changing an organizational structure is called:
93.
According to research, restructuring has _____ effect on task performance.
94.
Although not much is known about the effect of restructuring on affective commitment,
restructuring generally results in _____ level of affective commitment on the part of
employees.
95.
The first step in adapting to the environment is:
96.
Which of the following has been the most common kind of restructuring in recent years?
97.
Which of the following is the main reason behind many organizations flattening their
organizations?
98.
Which of the following actions is necessary when a company is hiring and firing at the
same time?
99.
Tom is the project manager of the Organizational Development team at Extreme Rugs.
Tom’s team has been assigned the task of studying and evaluating Extreme Rugs’
organizational structure. Tom divided the tasks among the team members to collect
preliminary information on different elements of Extreme Rugs’ structure. Jeremy was
asked to collect information on the degree to which tasks are divided into separate jobs.
Joy was asked to collect information on formal authority relationships. Alice started
looking into how many employees each manager has responsibility for, and Kathy was
asked to collect evidence on the degree to which rules and procedures are used to
standardize behaviors at Extreme Rugs. Tom himself decided to collect information and
evidence on where exactly decisions are formally made at Extreme Rugs. The team
decided to meet with information in two weeks.
Jeremy was given the job of collecting information on which of the following elements of
the organizational structure?