Exam 15: Organization Design

____ are the environmental factors responsible for helping organizations deliver and sell their products.

Nordstrom department stores are known for their extravagant shoe departments, luxurious customer restrooms, and other high-cost frills. The unique experience Nordstrom creates is an example of the _____ strategy.

Mechanistic management practices can be described as bureaucratic.

Which of these practices is evident with an organic management practice?

Define and describe a focused strategy. Provide examples of companies who use this strategy successfully.

_____ refers to an organization that is composed of units, which work on specialized tasks using different work methods and requiring employees who have unique competencies.

Authority, responsibility, and accountability for a project are given to the supervisor when using organic management practices.

In Change Competency: Sam Su of Kentucky Fried Chicken discovered that when doing business in China, you will rarely encounter government involvement.

Explain an organizational design based on geography and list some potential negative consequences of this design.

_____ refers to an employee's duty to perform an assigned task.

Another name for a network design is a

Jenna recommended that the retailer work to achieve cost advantages over competitors and rely on lower prices to gain customers and market share. What type of strategy is Jenna suggesting?

To create lower-cost products for the consumer, the marketing department at Shoe Savers created more free public relations campaigns instead of paid advertising campaigns and the product development area did a cost analysis to find lower costs on component parts. These two departments demonstrate the idea of ____ as they work to achieve a common goal.

In Learning from Experience: When Carl Buchan started Lowe's stores, he focused on major metropolitan markets serving populations of at least 500,000.

In Across Cultures Competency: After purchasing Eureka in 2004, AB Electrolux discovered it would have to change Eureka's organizational design to achieve a viable global organization.