Week 11 - L11 - Managing Organisational Design Flashcards
Which approach relates to “to stress that all organisations have to deal with a predictable number of uncertain circumstances?”
a. trait theory
b. knowledge management
c. contingency theory
d. Badham’s 5M framework
c. contingency theory
Contingencies will shape the organisation’s ______ as it adapts to them
a. design
b. code of conduct
c. innovation
d. creativity
a. design
3 contingencies: which one relates to organisations becoming more bureaucratic with repetition and routines?
a. organisation environment
b. organisation technology
c. organisation size
b. organisation technology
3 contingencies: which one relates to organisations being characterised by higher scores on scales that measure the degree of formalisation, standardisation and centralisation?
a. organisation environment
b. organisation technology
c. organisation size
c. organisation size
3 contingencies: which one relates to organisations having greater predictability and therefore probably have bureaucratic structures?
a. organisation environment
b. organisation technology
c. organisation size
a. organisation environment
Which organisation is most frequently to be found in stable environments?
a. mechanistic organisation
b. organic organisation
a. mechanistic organisation
Which organisation is more likely to be found in firms that are smaller, that operate in highly uncertain environments?
a. mechanistic organisation
b. organic organisation
b. organic organisation
Which organisation is more likely to be found in firms that are oriented to discovery and learning?
a. mechanistic organisation
b. organic organisation
b. organic organisation
Aston studies identified five characteristics of organisational variables in structural contingency theory. Which of the following is NOT one of the 5?
a. Specialisation
b. Standardisation
c. Formalisation
d. Discretion
e. Configuration
d. Discretion
Which one of the following factors accommodates change (not forces it)?
a. business cycle of boom and bust
b. diversification smoothing out market
c. competition increasing or diminishing market share
d. divisional risks
b. diversification smoothing out market
3 broad categories of Transaction Costs. Which one is NOT a TC?
a. Search and information costs
b. Bargaining cost
c. Policing and enforcements costs
d. Risk management costs
d. Risk management costs
“A theory that proposes that organisations have the structures that they do largely for cultural reasons”
a. contingency theory
b. institutional theory
c. diversification theory
b. institutional theory
Which one is NOT a mechanism of institutional theory?
a. coercive
b. capital
c. normative
d. mimetic
b. capital
Isomorphism – A term derived from biology, referring to \_\_\_\_\_\_ in form of organisms of different ancestry a. a difference b. equality c. a similarity d. a change
c. a similarity
Is the following
a. normative
b. coercive
c. mimetic
phenomena become widespread because they are socially seen as positive (i.e. teamwork, outsourcing
a. normative
