The organizing function includes all of the following activities EXCEPT

Question 1.                       

The organizing function includes all of the following activities EXCEPT

                                              job design

                                              departmentalization

                                              specification

                                              funding

Question 2.                       

Shine is a clothing manufacturer with home offices in the United Kingdom and the United States, factories in Bangladesh and Indonesia, and distribution hubs in China and Brazil. Which type of departmentalization MOST applies to Shine?

                                              strategic business unit

                                              geographic region

                                              product

                                              matrix

 Question 3.                      

The five coordinated flows of production are authority, decision process, ideology, _______________, and ________________.

                                              strategy; information

                                              work material; strategy

                                              work material; promotion

                                              information; work material

Question 4.                       

Authority consists of which two key components?

                                              the right to act and permission to direct

                                              the right to direct and permission to act

                                              the right to decide and permission to repair

                                              the right to repair and permission to decide

 Question 5.                      

French management authority Henri Fayol described the concept of parity of authority and responsibility, which refers to an authority figure’s

                                              obligation to employees

                                              commanding presence

                                              accountability

                                              respectability and honor

 Question 6.                      

Chaturanga is a yoga supply company that uses a business-to-business (B2B) model for selling yoga mats to yoga specialty stores. What kind of departmentalization does this represent?

                                              departmentalization by strategic business unit

                                              departmentalization by product

                                              departmentalization by customer

                                              departmentalization by matrix

 Question 7.                      

Which type of organizational structure is prone to duplication of activities and counterproductive inter-market customer competition?

                                              machine bureaucracy

                                              professional bureaucracy

                                              divisional structure

                                              adhocracy

Question 8.                       

At which of Alfred Chandler’s four stages of structural development does product diversification occur?

                                              Stage 1

                                              Stage 2

                                              Stage 3

                                              Stage 4

 Question 9.                      

All of the following organizations would be very likely to use an organic organizational structure EXCEPT

                                              Blank Walls, an advertising agency

                                              Wonderlight, a manufacturing plant

                                              Smith & Gerot, a management consulting firm

                                              Rough Draft, a graphic design group

Question 10.                    

At which of Alfred Chandler’s four stages of structural development does high product demand cause a crisis for a company?

                                              Stage 1

                                              Stage 2

                                              Stage 3

                                              Stage 4