Exam 6: Organizational Structure and Design

In a ________, employees are recruited from functional departments to work on a specific project for a limited time period.

A media company that has separate, autonomous companies for movies, TV, Internet, and print journalism is most likely a ________ structure.

In a learning organization, it is important that all employees _______.

A(n)________ organization has a high degree of specialization, formalization, and centralization.

When work specialization originally began to be implemented early in the twentieth century, employee productivity initially rose.

________ departmentalization is based on territory or the physical location of employees or customers.

When decisions tend to be made at lower levels in an organization, the organization is said to be centralized.

In a short essay, describe the matrix structure.What are its advantages and disadvantages?

The line of authority that extends from the upper levels of management to the lowest levels of the organization is termed the ________.

As the number of employees in an organization grows, structure tends to become more ________.

In a short essay, describe the characteristics of a simple structure.

By giving employees two direct superiors, a matrix structure violates this key element of organizational design.

Horizontal boundaries separate employees by the amount of power they have in an organization.

A bank manager who passes out bonuses at the end of the year is exercising this.

Contingent workers may make up to 40 percent of the workforce by the end of the decade.

A mechanistic organization is bureaucratic and hierarchical.

A learning organization develops the capability to ________.

The greater the environmental uncertainty, the more an organization needs to become ________.

Which of the following would likely be found in mechanistic organizations?

Woodward found that if horizontal differentiation in an organization were low, this structure worked best.