Question 1

What are the primary disadvantages of job specialization? How can job redesign be used to overcome these disadvantages?

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Question 2

Identify an organization that you know of and explain how and why its approach to organizational design tends to fit better with either the traditional (structure)or contemporary (process)approaches to organizational design.Be sure to state whether your organizational example more closely fits the model of mechanistic or organic organizational design.

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Question 3

Describe what is meant by organizational structure and organizational process.How are these concepts related to each other? How are they different from each other?

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Question 4

The job characteristics model (JCM)is concerned with increasing internal motivation.JCM specifies three critical psychological traits that must occur for work to be internally motivating.What are they?

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Question 5

There is one common disadvantage associated with geographic,product,and customer departmentalization.What is it? Explain how the functional and matrix forms avoid this disadvantage.

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Question 6

Define standardization.How is this concept relevant to the degree of organizational centralization?

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Question 7

What is a modular organization? Briefly identify the advantages and disadvantages associated with this organizational form.

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Question 8

Identify the five traditional approaches to organizational structure.Which one is the best for use by a company? Explain your answer.

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Question 9

Identify a job that you had (or a job that you know of)that was particularly boring and that had the characteristics of a specialized job.Analyze that job in terms of the five core job characteristics from the job characteristics model (JCM).Make specific recommendations for redesigning it by using three to five of the redesign techniques presented in the model.

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Question 10

List and briefly describe the two approaches that companies can use to redesign internal processes.

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Question 11

List and briefly identify each of the five traditional departmental structures.Explain which one tends to be the most difficult to manage effectively.

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Question 12

What is job specialization? Briefly explain its advantages and disadvantages.

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Question 13

Define authority.List the four dimensions by which it has traditionally been characterized in organizations.

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Question 14

How do the mechanistic and organic approaches to organization design differ? Under what circumstances is each appropriate for use by a company?

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Question 15

Describe the virtual organization.Explain how the virtual organization could theoretically prove to be a more formidable competitor than any of the other types of organizations in a highly complex,dynamic business environment.

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Question 16

Explain what is meant by the term departmentalization.List the five traditional approaches to departmentalization.

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Question 17

What is an intra-organizational process? Identify the techniques that are being used by companies today to change these processes.Evaluate the probable level of risk to a company in using each of these approaches.

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Question 18

Explain what is meant by authority.How can authority be centralized? How can it be decentralized? Describe the circumstances under which centralization versus decentralization would be more desirable.If you were a manager in a large company,what particular challenge might you expect to face with regard to the use of decentralization?

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Quiz 9: Designing Adaptive Organizations