Exam 10: Designing Organizational Structures

What are the day-to-day relationships that develop in an organization but are not listed on an organization chart called?

The virtual corporation expands the traditional boundaries of an organization.

Which of the following is one of the five major building blocks that determines the design of an efficient and effective organizational structure?

What are the five basic types of departmentalization?

Sarah Lyra is a safety engineer for a company that makes petrochemicals.What kind of a position does she have in the company since she is not directly involved in the process of making any chemicals?

Charlie Li has been hired by Exide Technologies to be its legal counsel.Li will handle all of Exide's legal affairs.Li is in which type of position?

Which of the following is the degree to which group members want to stay in the group and tend to resist outside influences?

An example of a staff position would be the job of district sales manager with 20 people working for him.

Which of the following principles guarantees that each employee will have only one direct supervisor?

Process departmentalization is a grouping of jobs by activity,such as marketing,finance,and production.

Which of the following defines the relationships of authority from one level of organization to the next,from top to bottom?

Mark Sorenson is the managing director of the British division of Exide Technologies.He has the legitimate power and right to make decisions about how the division is run and to influence others to carry out these decisions.Which of the following does he have?

What is a disadvantage of group cohesiveness?

Kohber is a Swiss-company that makes medical equipment.It recently purchased a company that manufactures packaging for high-value drugs.Since it will run the packaging company as a separate division for its own use,it would seem that Kohber is departmentalized by which of the following?

What is another name for the matrix structure?

Chloe Anyan works in the human resources department of a company that manufactures packaging machines.She handles payroll and insurance.Anyan is in which of the following positions?

The informal channels of communication in an organization are often referred to as the grapevine,the rumour mill,or the intelligence network.

Organization charts show the formal and informal relationships among people,jobs,and departments.

What kind of power gives a supervisor the authority to make decisions?

Hannah Keefer is a sales manager for a company that sells office equipment to retail stores in Ontario.She is responsible for five salespeople who report directly to her.Which of the following principles explains her relationship to these five people?