Exam 9: Designing Adaptive Organizations

Change and uncertainty in the environment are usually associated with

The horizontal structure provides traditional control within functional departments, and the vertical structure provides coordination across departments.

____________________ teams consist of employees from various functional departments who are responsible to meet as a team and resolve mutual problems.

An advantage of functional structures is the

What is(are) the difference(s) between cross-functional and permanent teams?

____ works best in a stable organizational environment.

An organization strives for internal efficiency with a(n) ____ strategy.

List the five approaches to departmentalization.

The divisional structure is sometimes called a(n) ____________________, ____________________, or ____________________.

____ departments include all of those that provide specialized skills in support of ____ departments.

Makai's Marketing Mix (MMM) does not use its resources wisely. The employees at MMM spend too much time in meetings and not enough time focusing on the task at hand. MMM's management should consider changing the organizational structure from ____ to ____.

Which of the following leads to strong coordination across functional areas and greater flexibility in responding to changes in the environments?

____ refers to a clearly defined line of authority in the organization that includes all employees.

In today's environment, organizations with stronger horizontal designs typically perform better.

The pure functional structure is appropriate for achieving internal efficiency goals.

An organized group of related tasks and activities that work together to transform inputs into outputs and create value is called a process.

Theresa works in an organization where coordination across organizational units is poor and the units perceived themselves to be in competition with one another for organizational resources. These characteristics are consistent with which of the following structures?

Flexible authority expectations typically would fit with horizontal organizing, such as managing teams, projects, and reengineering.

Which of the following structures works best in an uncertain organizational environment?

The three characteristics of authority are that it must be ____________________, ____________________, and ____________________.