Exam 7: Designing Organizational Structure

The units of Zach, Ltd. are grouped together such that the functions that work together to produce a product are grouped together. This is an example of a(n) ________ structure.

A differentiation strategy aimed at increasing the customer's perception of an organization services usually succeeds even with an inflexible structure.

Organizational design reflects the organization's mission statement irrespective of the situation.

An organization that allows its employees to behave in a flexible way even as the organization grows and becomes taller is utilizing ________.

An organization whose members are linked by computers, email, computer-aided design systems, videoconferencing, and cloud-based software is a ________ organization.

The Pizza Man combined the jobs of "chef" and "food server" into a single job description. The Pizza Man implemented ________.

The idea that an organization's hierarchy should be designed with as few levels of authority as are necessary to use the organization's resources in an efficient and effective manner falls under which of the following principles?

Rusty is a project manager who has 15 employees reporting directly to him. Those 15 employees are Rusty's ________.

Which of the following structures is an organizational structure composed of separate business units within which are the functions that work together to produce a specific product for a specific customer?

How does the product team structure differ from the matrix structure?

State the differences between a line and staff manager.

Explain the forms of divisional structure and the organization of divisions under it.

The goal of job enlargement is to ________.

An organization's hierarchy of authority is also known as its ________.

Compared to an order taker at a restaurant, a sales executive who is given the authority to choose the prospective customers he will visit on personal sales calls has ________.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a functional structure of organization.

A manager increases the number of tasks that a subordinate has to do in order to make the job more interesting for the subordinate. This is known as ________.

A network structure is a series of global strategic alliances that one or several organizations create with suppliers, manufacturers, and/or distributors to produce and market a product.

A Place for Pizza established a basic division of labor among "chefs" and "food servers" in which chefs perform all tasks involved in actual cooking and food servers carry out all tasks involved in giving food to the customers. A Place for Pizza implemented ________.

In the design of an organization, another name for "market structure" is "________ structure."