Exam 1: What Are Organizations

Not all companies and other organizations undergo changes that can be illuminated and informed by theories of organization and its design.

At Organization B it takes 300 employees working 40-hour workweeks, a €2 million budget per year, 1 ton of raw materials per month, and 150 suppliers to ensure the organization reaches its desired level of output. This is describing the of the organization.

is/are attributed with being a strong contributor to the development of bureaucratic organizations.

Organizations are (1) social entities that (2) are goal-directed, (3) are designed as deliberately structured and coordinated activity systems, and (4) are linked to the external environment.

The organizations are important to society because of all of these except:

Issues of ethics and social responsibility are not very important.

The Scents Place is a well-organized, highly productive business that manufactures a variety of perfumes sold within Africa. Its employees are dedicated to providing superior customer service and respecting each other and the organization. Each work day employees report on time and are professionally dressed even though there is no dress code in place at the business. The workers are very pleased by the benefit package provided by the company and constantly discuss how well their employers take care of them. The company, in turn, is very pleased by the dedication, ethical behaviours, and efficiency of its workers. This is a description of the of The Scents Place.

Of the following structural dimensions, which one is sometimes referred to as division of labour?

Of the following, which one is least likely to represent a challenge organizations may face today?

Markets, technologies and organizations are becoming increasingly interconnected.

Which of the following is not a structural dimension of organizations?

When an organization willingly adopts different organizational activities, practices, and methods in order to better satisfy the various individuals who have an interest in it, it could be stated the organization is using a(n) .

Organization A has decided it will place 70% of its workforce in production, 10% in managerial capacities, and 20% in various administrative positions. It has determined 42.67% of its budget will be devoted to providing what is necessary for its employees to assist the company in achieving the desired end result of operations. Which contextual dimension of Organization A is this describing?

Of the following structural dimensions, which one would include the organization's job descriptions, its human resource policies, and the internal regulations established for the firm?

Which of the following is best described as being a micro examination of an organization that focuses on the people inside the organization and examines concepts such as motivation, personality, and leadership style?

Intangible assets, including corporations' investments in people as well as financial products, become increasingly important relative to tangible assets.

Brenda Oshogbo works at S&S Operations. She heads that company's human resource department and is primarily responsible for establishing employee compensation and benefit programs. Brenda would most likely be considered to be in which one of the following parts of the organization?

According to the ideas proposed by Henry Mintzberg, in which part of an organization would workers who produce the product fit?