Exam 7: Designing Organizational Structure

The extent to which a job requires the worker to use a wide range of knowledge and abilities is known as:

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

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.

When managers organize divisions according to the types of customer to whom they market their products,they are focusing on a product structure.

Managers should design flexible structures,characterized by decentralized authority and empowered employees,for their organization when it's:

An organizational structure consisting of all the departments within the company is a(n)________________ structure.

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.

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

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.

The degree to which a job allows the worker to schedule the tasks of the job and to decide how to carry out these tasks is known as:

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:

The degree to which a job design gives a worker the freedom to schedule his/her tasks and to decide how to carry them out is known as the task identity.

At Cosmeto & Co. ,Pat is assigned to a team to develop a new kind of shampoo.He reports to both the marketing manager and the personal care product manager.The organization is pursuing a ________________ organizational structure.

The more nonroutine the technology an organization uses,the easier it is for managers to control and regulate the technology.

The ability of managers to use outside suppliers and manufacturers to produce goods and services,has led many researchers and consultants to popularize the idea of a boundaryless organization.

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.

Describe the matrix structure and the concept of the "two-boss employees."

The extent to which a job gives the worker direct and clear information about how well the worker is performing the job is known as:

The number of subordinates who report directly to a manager is known as the hierarchy of authority for that manager.

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.