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Management Practice Test: Organizational Structure and Culture
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Management Practice Test: Organizational Structure and Culture
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1. Functional departmentalization groups jobs by ________.
2. In today's decentralized business world, ________ the most important strategic decisions.
3. Larger organizations tend to have ________ than smaller organizations.
4. All of the following are necessary for successful team structure EXCEPT ________.
5. As an organization grows to a size of over 2,000 employees, it finds it hard to avoid becoming more ________.
6. The importance of unity of command has diminished in today's workplace because of its tendency to be ________.
7. Staff managers have authority over ________.
8. Which of the following phrases best characterizes the culture of an organization?
9. What is a weakness of a simple structure?
10. All of the following are characteristics of a highly formalized organization EXCEPT ________.
11. A virtual organization is essentially ________ who come together for a particular project.
12. Which of the following are NOT basic elements of organizational structure?
13. What is a strength of a simple structure?
14. A learning organization develops the capability to ________.
15. All of the following are part of the process of organizational design EXCEPT ________.
16. A(n) ________ organization has a high degree of specialization, formalization, and centralization.
17. ________ is the obligation or expectation to perform a duty.
18. Your firm's attorney has ________ power when giving legal advice.
19. By giving employees two direct superiors, a matrix structure violates this key element of organizational design.
20. Traditional organizational designs tend to be more mechanistic and include ________.
21. In Woodward's study, this type of production combined high vertical differentiation and low horizontal differentiation.
22. Which of the following would likely be found in mechanistic organizations?
23. When a group member in a matrix structure finishes a project, she ________.
24. Today, managers favor this approach instead of work specialization.
25. Sony Corporation's focus on product innovation is an example of which of the following dimensions of organizational culture?