Unit 5

Question 1

When did changes come more quickly?

Answer 1

1900s

Question 2

What organization combines traditional functional structure with a product structure?

Answer 2

Matrix Organizations

Question 3

In a matrix structure, product managers have control over?

Answer 3

Product related matters

Question 4

In a Matrix structure department managers have authority over?

Answer 4

Matters related to company policy

Question 5

Who typically uses matrix structures?

Answer 5

Many information technology companies engaged in software development

Question 6

Who created the term boundaryless organization?

Answer 6

Jack Welch

Question 7

What is an organization that eliminates traditional barriers between departments as well as barriers between the organization and external environment?

Answer 7

Boundaryless organizations

Question 8

Nonessential functions are outsourced

Answer 8

Modular organizations

Question 9

Two or more companies find and area of collaboration and combine their efforts to create a partnership that is beneficial for both parties

Answer 9

Strategic Alliances

Question 10

What is an organization that actively seeks to acquire knowledge and change behavior as a result of the newly acquired knowledge?

Answer 10

Learning Organizations

Question 11

Planning

Answer 11

1. Vision and Mission
2. Strategizing
   3 Goals and Ovjectives

Question 12

Organizing

Answer 12

1. Organization Design
2. Culture
3. Social Networks

Question 13

Leading

Answer 13

1. Leadership
2. Decision making
3. Communications
4. Groups/Teams
5. Motivation

Question 14

Controlling

Answer 14

1. Systems and Processes
2. Strategic Human Resources

Question 15

Creating or enhancing the structure of an organization

Answer 15

Organizational Design

Question 16

How individual and team work within an organization are coordinated

Answer 16

Organizational structure

Question 17

What does structure do?

Answer 17

Specifies reporting relationships, delineates formal communication channels, and describes how separate actions of individuals are linked together

Question 18

What does management operate from?

Answer 18

Planning, organizing, staffing, leading/directing, controlling:monitoring, and motivating

Question 19

What does specific organizing duties involve?

Answer 19

The assignment of tasks, the grouping of tasks into departments, and the assignment of authority and allocation of resources across the organization

Question 20

What is structure

Answer 20

The framework in which the organization defines how tasks are divided, resources are deployed, and departments are coordinated

Question 21

A managers formal and legitimate right to make decisions, issue orders and allocate resources to achieve desired outcomes for an organization

Answer 21

Authority

Question 22

Employees duty to perform assigned tasks or activities

Answer 22

Responsibility

Question 23

Those with authority and responsibility must report and justify task outcomes to those above them in the chain of command

Answer 23

Accountability

Question 24

Managers have the formal power to direct and control immediate subordinates executing specific tasks within a chain of command , usually within a specific department

Answer 24

Line authority

Question 25

Managers have formal power over a subset of activities that include outside departments

Answer 25

Functional Authority

Question 26

Staff specialists manage operations within their expertise

Answer 26

Staff Authority