OD Step 4-Task Design

Question 1

Complicated task design

Answer 1

an organizational task design in which work is organized in a way that it is not very divisible but highly repetitive; usually requires a high degree of coordination among the subtasks

Question 2

Divisible task design

Answer 2

a task which can be broken into subtasks that are relatively independent of one another with respect to resource utilization and dependency of operations

Question 3

Fragmented task design

Answer 3

an organizational task design in which work is organized to be highly divisible but not repetitive; usually requires less coordination compared to complicated task design

Question 4

Knotty task design

Answer 4

an organizational task design in which work is organized in a way that it is neither divisible nor repetitive; usually requires not only coordination among subtasks but also support for the non repetitive nature of subtasks

Question 5

Orderly task design

Answer 5

an organizational task design in which work is organized in a way that it is highly divisible and highly repetitive; usually requires relatively little coordination among the subtasks

Question 6

Repetitive task

Answer 6

a task which is well-defined (i.e., standardized) so that it is executed again and again

Question 7

Task design

Answer 7

decomposing work (the big task) into subtasks and then coordinating among the subtasks to meet organizational goals