Daft chapter 1

Question 1

What are some of the current challenges for companies?

Answer 1

Globalization, intense competition, Ethics and social responsibilities, speed and responsiveness, the digital workplace, Diversity

Question 2

Organization exist to do what?

Answer 2

Bring together resources to achieve desired goals and outcomes,
Produce goods and services efficiently,
Facilitate innovation,
Use modern manufacturing and information technologies,
Adapt to and influence a changing environment,
Create value for owners, customers and employees,
Accomodate ongoing challenges of diversity - ethics - the motivation and coordination of employees.

Question 3

What are the different strucutal dimensions of an organization?

Answer 3

Formalization
Specialization
Hierachy of authority
centralization
profesionalism
Personnel ratios

Question 4

What is the structual dimension - Formalization

Answer 4

The amount of written documents in the organization. Includes manuals, procedures, policies…

Question 5

What is the structual dimension - Specialization

Answer 5

How organizational tasks are divided into smaller tasks. the more divided, the more specific each task is

Question 6

What is the structual dimension - Hiearchy of authority

Answer 6

who reports to whom

Question 7

What is the structual dimension - Centralization

Answer 7

when decisions are made from the top, the organization is centralized

Question 8

What is the structual dimension - Personnel ratios

Answer 8

The ratios between different functions of employees.

Question 9

What is the structual dimension - Professionalism

Answer 9

The level of formal education of the employees

Question 10

What are the 5 Contextual dimensions?

Answer 10

Size
Organizational technology
the Environment
The goals and strategies
The Culture

Question 11

What is the Contextual dimension - Size ?

Answer 11

The size of the organisation

Question 12

What is the Contextual dimension - Organizational technology?

Answer 12

Tools, techniques and actions, used to transform input into output

Question 13

What is the Contextual dimension - The environment ?

Answer 13

Everything outside the boundaries of the company

Question 14

What is the Contextual dimension - The Culture ?

Answer 14

The underlying set of key values, beliefs, understandings, and norms shared by the employees

Question 15

What is the Contextual dimension - The goals and strategies?

Answer 15

Goals are often written down as an enduring statement of company intent.

Question 16

What is efficiency?

Answer 16

the amount of resources used to achieve the organizations goals.
(Gør tingene rigtigt)

Question 17

What is effectiveness

Answer 17

the degree to which an organization achieves it’s goals. (gør de rigtige ting)

Question 18

What is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness?

Answer 18

Do things right, and do the right things.

(gør tingene rigtigt og gør de rigtige ting.)

Question 19

What are stakeholders?

Answer 19

Everyone who is influenced by the company and it’s decisions.

Question 20

What describes the Entrepreneurial structure?

Answer 20

Typically a new small start-up company. It consists of mainly a top manager and workers in the technical core. The organization is managed and coordinated directly by the top.

Primary focus is to survive and establish in the industry.

Suited for a dynamic environment.

Question 21

What describes a Machine Bureaucracy?

Answer 21

Very large and mature organization. The technical core is often oriented to mass production. Fully elaborated technical and administrative departments including engineers, market researchers and financial analysts.

The primary goal is efficiency.

Would not do well in a dynamic environment.

Question 22

What describes a Professional Bureaucracy?

Answer 22

The main part is the technical core. The technical core here is made of up highly skilled professionals, such as in hospitals, universities and law firms. The technical core can handle most things due to them being autonomous and proffesional.

They typically provide service instead of tangible goods.

Question 23

What describes the diversified form?

Answer 23

A very large organization which has divided into smaller divisions. Larger administrative support to handle paperwork to and from divisions.
Each of the independent divisions illustrates a machine bureaucracy.

The diversified form helps to solve the problem of inflexibility experienced by a too - large machine bureaucracy.

Question 24

What describes the Adhocracy?

Answer 24

Develops in a complex rapidly changing environment. The design goal is frequent innovation and meeting continually chaning needs as in the aerospace and defense industries.
Figure above, shows the various parts(middle management, technical and administrative support) merged together into an amorphous mass in the middle. Usually young or middle aged and can grow quite large. Different

Question 25

What is an example of a Entrepreneurial organization?

Answer 25

Carpenters or new startups

Question 26

What is an example of a Adhocracy organization?

Answer 26

Rådgivende ingeniører eller biotekvirksomheder

Question 27

What is an example of a machine bureaucracy?

Answer 27

Production company

Question 28

What is an example of a Professional bureaucracy?

Answer 28

Banks and schools institutions.