Designing Adaptive Organizations

9 Questions | By Kmchoromanski | Updated: Jan 23, 2013 | Attempts: 296

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1.

Functional Departmentalization is the most common organizational structure
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
Correct Answer
A. True
2.

Duplication of resources is a disadvantage in which type of departmentalization?
- A.
  
  Product
- B.
  
  Geographic
- C.
  
  Customer
- D.
  
  All of the above
Correct Answer
D. All of the above
3.

One of the advantages of virtual organizations is NOT
- A.
  
  Let companies share costs
- B.
  
  Requires tremendous management skills
- C.
  
  Fast and flexible
- D.
  
  Being the best should provide better products
- E.
  
  None of the above
Correct Answer
B. Requires tremendous management skills
4.

Three factors in intraorganizational are reengineering, empowerment, and behavioral informality
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
Correct Answer
A. True
5.

The primary goal in the Job Characteristic Model is
- A.
  
  High growth satisfaction
- B.
  
  Internal motivation
- C.
  
  High work effectiveness
- D.
  
  High general job satisfaction
Correct Answer
B. Internal motivation
6.

Benefits of job specialization are
- A.
  
  Can be tought fast
- B.
  
  Improved efficiency
- C.
  
  Reduced quality control costs
- D.
  
  Learn speed and production faster
- E.
  
  All of the above
Correct Answer
E. All of the above
7.

Job Rotation is increasing the number of different tasks a worker performs
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
Correct Answer
B. False
8.

One structure that Organizational Authority deals with
- A.
  
  Chain of Command
- B.
  
  Line vs. Employee
- C.
  
  Decentralization
- D.
  
  None of the above
Correct Answer
A. Chain of Command
9.

Decentralization of Authority is the location of most authority at the upper levels of the organization
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
Correct Answer
B. False

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Designing Adaptive Organizations

Functional Departmentalization is the most common organizational structure

Duplication of resources is a disadvantage in which type of departmentalization?

One of the advantages of virtual organizations is NOT

Three factors in intraorganizational are reengineering, empowerment, and behavioral informality

The primary goal in the Job Characteristic Model is

Benefits of job specialization are

Job Rotation is increasing the number of different tasks a worker performs

One structure that Organizational Authority deals with

Decentralization of Authority is the location of most authority at the upper levels of the organization