Managing Organizational Structure And Culture

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Managers and Managing
The Evolution of Management
Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture: The Manager As a Person
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Managing Diverse Employees in a Multicultural Environment
Managing in the Global Environment
Decision Making, Learning, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
The Manager As a Planner and a Strategist
Value Chain Management: Functional Strategies for Competitive Advantage
Managing Organizational Structure and Culture
Organizational Control and Change
Human Resource Management
Motivation Performance
Leadership
Effective Groups and Teams
Promoting Effective Communication
Managing Conflict, Politics, and Negotiation
Used Advanced Information Technology to Increase Performance

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Organizational design remains consistent across all organizations.

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The characteristics of an organization's human resources are an important factor in determining the type of organizational structure.

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Different strategies need different organizational structures and cultures.

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Managers who make design choices that increase job enlargement are likely to increase the degree to which people behave mechanically.

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The degree to which a job gives an employee the freedom to schedule different tasks and decide how to carry them out is known as task significance.

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An organizational structure composed of all the departments that an organization requires to produce its goods or services is known as a functional structure.

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The goal behind changing to a divisional structure is to create smaller, more manageable units within the organization.

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Managers are most likely to adopt a global geographic structure when they pursue a multidomestic strategy.

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The matrix structure of an organization is usually very rigid.

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As the hierarchy of an organization becomes taller, the organization may become less flexible.

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Decentralizing authority allows an organization and its employees to behave in a flexible way even as the organization grows and becomes taller.

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Typically, direct contact and liaison roles provide sufficient coordination when more than two functions or divisions share many common problems.

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Organizational culture is shaped by the personal and professional characteristics of people within the organization.

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In a flat, decentralized structure, people can be creative and courageous and take risks.

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By decentralizing authority, employees are encouraged to be creative and innovative.

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Question 16

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_____ refers to the formal system of task and job reporting relationships that determines how employees use resources to achieve organizational goals.

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Organizational socialization

Organizational culture

Organizational structure

Organizational norms

Organizational values

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Question 17

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_____ refers to the shared set of beliefs, values, and norms that influence how people and groups work together to achieve organizational goals.

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Organizational structure

Organizational culture

Organizational hierarchy

Organizational effectiveness

Organizational intelligence

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Question 18

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_____ is the process by which managers create a specific type of organizational structure and culture.

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Forward vertical integration

Tactical planning

Contingency planning

Economies of scale

Organizational design

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Question 19

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Which of the following is true of about low-cost strategy?

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It fares best in an organization with an informal structure.

It fares best in an organization with more liberal norms.

It fares best in an organization that gives its employees a lot of autonomy.

It is aimed at increasing the value of goods as perceived by customers.

It gives managers greater control over the organizational activities.

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Question 20

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Which of the following organizing choices are managers most likely to make to obtain scarce resources under a rapidly changing external environment?

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establish restrictive norms that guide and govern employees' activities

centralize authority

use a mechanistic form of organizing

establish values that emphasize obedience

create an entrepreneurial culture

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