Exam 6: Designing Organizational Structure: Specialization and Coordination

A hybrid structure is for complex organizations that have many divisions and need to make use of several different structures.

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When a company must change a product's characteristics quickly to respond to changing customer preferences, a structure is most appropriate.

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Question 42

Each division within a product division structure can have a different organizational structure.

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Question 43

TheB.A.R. and Grille has now expanded. They have installed a drive-thru window, and have also added a banquet facility to serve wedding parties. The functional structure was not working well. When a wedding party was using the facility, the regular customers complained that the service took too long. Also, the drive thru customers were a strain on the system since it was unpredictable when they would arrive. How would you restructure this restaurant? What would this look like?

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Question 44

A ________ structure organizes divisions according to the requirements of the different locations in which an organization appears.

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Question 45

Under the leadership of Alfred Sloan, General Motors:

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Question 46

When a company moves from a functional structure to a divisional structure, it generally:

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Question 47

A ________ structure has support functions placed in self-contained divisions.

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Question 48

If control problems are due to different types of customers purchasing similar products, which of the following structures would be most appropriate?

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Question 49

Hallmark organized around categories of greeting cards such as Mother's Day cards and Christmas cards. This structure is called ________.

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Question 50

Which of the following is a difference between the product division structure and the multidivisional structure?

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Question 51

Which of the following is not an advantage of a network organization?

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Question 52

Which of the following is an advantage of the multidivisional structure?

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Question 53

In a product division structure, a centralized set of support functions service the needs of a number of different product lines.

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Question 54

A computer manufacturer sells computers online to individual customers, and also has sales reps in the field that market the same computer systems to large businesses. Which of the following structures would be most appropriate for this organization?

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Question 55

Which of the following structures maximizes the use of employees?

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Question 56

The boundaryless organization is characterized by all of the following except:

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Question 57

How did William McComb restructure Liz Claiborne's organization?

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Question 58

Success at Amazon.com has been due to the functional structure, which has provided all of the following except:

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Question 59

Production, marketing, and sales have little opportunity to specialize in the needs of a customer group. This is a ________ problem associated with a functional structure.

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A hybrid structure is for complex organizations that have many divisions and need to make use of several different structures.

When a company must change a product's characteristics quickly to respond to changing customer preferences, a structure is most appropriate.

Each division within a product division structure can have a different organizational structure.

A ________ structure organizes divisions according to the requirements of the different locations in which an organization appears.

Under the leadership of Alfred Sloan, General Motors:

When a company moves from a functional structure to a divisional structure, it generally:

A ________ structure has support functions placed in self-contained divisions.

If control problems are due to different types of customers purchasing similar products, which of the following structures would be most appropriate?

Hallmark organized around categories of greeting cards such as Mother's Day cards and Christmas cards. This structure is called ________.

Which of the following is a difference between the product division structure and the multidivisional structure?

Which of the following is not an advantage of a network organization?

Which of the following is an advantage of the multidivisional structure?

In a product division structure, a centralized set of support functions service the needs of a number of different product lines.

A computer manufacturer sells computers online to individual customers, and also has sales reps in the field that market the same computer systems to large businesses. Which of the following structures would be most appropriate for this organization?

Which of the following structures maximizes the use of employees?

The boundaryless organization is characterized by all of the following except:

How did William McComb restructure Liz Claiborne's organization?

Success at Amazon.com has been due to the functional structure, which has provided all of the following except:

Production, marketing, and sales have little opportunity to specialize in the needs of a customer group. This is a ________ problem associated with a functional structure.

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