Exam 13: Organizational Structure and Design

Among the alleged limitations of the virtual organization, according to Child, are:

When the organization adapts its labour costs to its financial circumstances, this is called:

Among potential benefits of the virtual organization are:

Burns and Stalker investigated industrial companies in England and Scotland to establish how changes in the technological and market environments affected orga-nization structure and the management process. The authors categorized firms along the dimension of:

In the age of hyper-specialization a notable development is micro-specialization. This approach - e.g. Amazon's Topcoder - has appeal when a company faces a very stiff challenge, in this case to create a complex computer programme. What course of action is preferable?

Which of the following is not an ideal feature of Weber's bureaucratic organization?

Who were disadvantaged in a psychological sense as a result of downsizing, accord-ing to Kets de Vries and Balazs?

The. matrix structure of an organization integrates:

When members of the formal organization relate to each other and participate in activities not prescribed by the organizational blueprint, we speak of:

Those who put forward the "principles of organization" have been criticized gener-ally for:

Systems in which the output is directed at meeting the specific orders of customers rather than producing for stock are:

When analysing organizations, the following subsystems must be considered:

When management uses teams as a central feature of structure, this is also referred to as:

Subordinates receiving instruction from one supervisor refers to:

The phenomenon that within an organization there are cells or subsystems, each of which positions itself with respect to its own relevant external environment, is called:

The manufacture of Boeing's Dreamliner 787 involved sophisticated planning and design, coupled with the use of cutting-edge production technology and the involve-ment of suppliers worldwide. What type of organization was necessary to complete this demanding project successfully?

The two types of outsourcing are:

When reductions in head count are made in response to external events and short-term needs this is called:

A large, long-established organization operating in a stable and complex environ-ment would be described as a:

A recently established organization or start-up with relatively little specialization would be described by Mintzberg as: