Question 1

What are the five basic types of departmentalization?

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Question 2

What is the management pyramid?

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Question 3

The ____________________ personnel provide advice and specialized support services to line managers.

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Question 4

What kind of power gives a supervisor the authority to make decisions?

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Question 5

____________________ is the degree to which group members want to stay in the group and resist outside influences.

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Question 6

A(n)____________________ organization has a flat organizational structure.

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Question 7

____________________ is the complete redesign of business structures and processes in order to improve operations.

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Question 8

A(n)____________________ is a network of independent companies linked by information technology to share skills,costs,and access to one another's markets.

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Question 9

A(n )____________________ organization is characterized by a relatively high degree of job specialization,rigid departmentalization,many layers of management,narrow spans of control,centralized decision making,and a long chain of command.

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Question 10

The ____________________ organization is a design with direct,clear lines of authority and communication.

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Question 11

A(n)____________________ is also called the project management approach and is sometimes used in conjunction with the traditional line-and-staff structure in an organization.

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Question 12

A manager's ____________________ is the number of subordinates that a manager can effectively supervise.

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Question 13

What is the difference between span of control and span of management?

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Question 14

Briefly discuss the relationship between division of labour and specialization.

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Question 15

____________________ is the practice of giving only limited authority to lower-level managers.

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Question 16

Briefly define accountability.

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Question 17

Allyson Edge shares decision making and authority with her subordinates.Edge's department is ____________________ because she believes the people she supervises can make good decisions on their own.

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Question 18

____________________ are teams of employees who are from about the same level of the organizational hierarchy but from different functional areas.

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Question 19

List the three structural building blocks used in designing an efficient and effective organizational structure.

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Question 20

A salesperson and a coworker who happens to be an accountant have developed a relationship that did not formally exist on the organization chart but has improved their working relationship.Their friendship illustrates a/an ____________________ relationship.

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Quiz 8: Designing Organizational Structures