Exam 11: Managing Organization Design

What are some differences in organizational design that you would expect between a community college and an ivy league university?  It is helpful to first consider each school's strategy.

Briefly describe the relationship between organizational strategy and organization design. Be sure to include the effects at each level of strategy.

According to Burns and Stalker, firms that use an organic design are the most successful firms in a stable environment.

System ____________________ design is similar to the bureaucratic model.

The technology that is most effective with a System 4 design is ____ technology.

The Pizza Place makes only pizza and sells only pizza, drinks, and prepackaged snacks. This is an example of the ____ organization design.

When a patient in critical condition enters the emergency room, the skills of numerous people are geared toward saving the individual's life. Sometimes this isn't possible, and as a result, the personnel look to each other for emotional support. Subordinates and supervisors are close friends because they understand the emotional traumas that the others have experienced. According to Weber's bureaucratic model

Organization designs in which two or more of the most common forms of organization design are combined are called ____________________ organization designs.

Staples print shop prints whatever the customer requests. What class of technology does it use?

Compare and contrast the team, virtual, and learning organizations.

Discount retailers like Michael's rely on economies of scale. They use ____ technology.

Which of the following is an advantage associated with the matrix design?

When Hewlett Packard was pursuing a defender strategy it was likely to

GM used a new strategy when it designed the Saturn division separately from the previous divisions. GM uses a ____ design.

Organizational design is the building block. Job design is how the blocks are put together.

Burns and Stalker identified two extreme forms of organizational ____________________: stable (one that remains relatively constant over time) and unstable (subject to uncertainty and rapid change.

A divisional (M-form) organization design is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

____________________ is the total number of full-time or full-time-equivalent employees.

WMC Corporation uses a departmentalized structure based on different product groups set up as profit centers. The general managers of these profit centers report to a central corporate group that serves as a holding company. This is a ____ organization design.

The Aston studies found basic generalizations. Which of the following is NOT one of them?