78.
(p. 500)
A bureaucratic structure is an organizational form that exhibits many of the facets of the
_____ organization.
79.
(p. 500)
The most basic bureaucratic structure is the _____ structure.
80.
(p. 500)
At Light Body Warmer Manufacturing, employees are grouped according to their expertise
in an area. All marketing employees are in one department, all finance employees are grouped in
another department and similarly, all human resources and manufacturing employees are in their
respective departments. Which of the following structures does Light Body Warmer Manufacturing
use?
81.
(p. 500)
Which of the following statements is true about functional organization structure?
82.
(p. 500)
The biggest weakness of a functional structure is that:
83. 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 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
84.
(p. 500)
Which of the following is a bureaucratic organizational form in which employees are
grouped into divisions around products, geographic regions, or clients?
85.
(p. 500)
Which of the following structures generally develop from companies with functional
structures whose interests and goals become too diverse for that structure to handle?
86.
(p. 500)
When Hyundai Motor Company groups its business units around the different lines of cars
such as i10, i20, Zing, Sonata, and Verna, which of the following structures is it creating?
87.
(p. 500)
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?
88.
(p. 502)
When Happy Feet Shoe, 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?
89.
(p. 502)
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?
90.
(p. 502)
More complex forms of organizational design that try to take advantage of two types of
structures at the same time are called _____ structures.
91.
(p. 502–503)
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?
92.
(p. 503)
The matrix structure gives each employee _____ chain(s) of command.
93.
(p. 506)
The process of changing an organizational structure is called:
94.
(p. 506)
A corporate _____ may call for spinning off some departments into subsidiaries as a
means of creating a more effective management model as well as taking advantage of tax breaks
that would allow the corporation to divert more revenue to the production process.
95.
(p. 506)
According to research, restructuring has _____ effect on task performance.
96.
(p. 506)
Although not much is known about the effect of restructuring on affective commitment,
restructuring generally results in _____ level(s) of affective commitment on the part of employees.
97.
(p. 507)
The first step in adapting to the environment is:
98.
(p. 507)
Which of the following has been the most common kind of restructuring in recent years?
99.
(p. 507)
Which of the following is the main reason behind many organizations flattening their
organizations?
100.
(p. 507)
Which of the following actions is necessary when a company is hiring and firing at the
same time?
101.
(p. 491)
Scenario: Extreme Rug
Tom is the project manager of the corporate structure team at Extreme Rugs. Tom’s team has
been assigned the task to study and evaluate Extreme Rugs’ organizational structure. To collect
the preliminary information, Tom divided the tasks among the team members to collect
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 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?