Exam 7: Designing Organizational Structure

Jason has been hired by Praltiz Inc., an IT firm, to increase coordination among functions or divisions to achieve performance gains from synergies. What role is Jason hired to perform?

The degree to which programmed solutions are available to people or functions to solve the problems they encounter is task ________.

Describe job enlargement. What is its significance in an organization?

Compared to a salesperson of a prescription drug store, a doctor who works with people suffering from malignant diseases has ________.

Too much decentralization has disadvantages for an organization.

Tot Beverages creates a series of agreements with its suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors to produce and market Zing Cola. This is an example of a ________ organizational structure.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of "decentralization" in organizational design.

Xpress Delivery Corporation organizes its managers according to the different regions of the world in which the managers work. This is an example of a ________ structure.

According to Charles Perrow, the routineness of technology is determined by task ________.

What is the main problem with the matrix structure's dual reporting relationship?

It is easier for managers to monitor and evaluate subordinates' performance in a functional structure than a divisional structure.

Alkyl, Ltd., one of the leading shoe manufacturers, enters into a contract with Blinx-a foreign manufacturer-to only manufacture its shoes. In this scenario, Alkyl, Ltd. is following the ________ strategy.

When designing an organization, if managers are grouped both by function and by product at the same time, the organizational structure being used is the ________ structure.

The idea that top management should design an organization with as few levels of authority as is needed to conduct the business of the organization in an efficient and effective manner is known as the minimum chain of command.

Write a brief note on liaison roles, task forces, and cross-functional teams.

Alkyl, Ltd., designs shoes using computer-aided design, and they electronically store all new product information, including manufacturing instructions. When the designers have finished their work, they electronically transmit all the blueprints for the new products to a network of Southeast Asian suppliers and manufacturers with which Alkyl, Ltd., has formed strategic alliances. Instructions for the design of a new sole are sent to a supplier in India with instructions for the leather uppers to a supplier in Bhutan. The strategic alliance Alkyl, Ltd., follows is an example of a ________ structure.

Fern Motor Co. brings together senior managers from its marketing, R&D, manufacturing, accounting, and finance departments to work on a project as a team, to design a new type of sport utility vehicle. In this scenario, Fern Motor Co. creates a ________.

A manager redesigns the job of a subordinate so that the subordinate has more responsibility over her job. This is the process of ________.

The more complex an organization, the less important the use of cross-functional teams becomes to the organization.

Organizing tools that managers use to increase communication among functions and divisions are known as ________ mechanisms.