CH3 Practice Quiz

Which of the following is an example of a divisionalized bureaucracy?

Fortune 500 firm

Which of the following technologies disrupted the traditional publishing industry?

World Wide Web

The interaction b/w information technology and organizations is influenced:

by many factors, including structure, politics, culture, and enviroment.

Mitzberg classifies a large bureaucracy existing in a slowly changing environment that produces standard products and is dominated by centralized management as a(n) _______ bureaucracy.

machine

According to the _____________ definition of organizations, an organization is seen as a means by which capital and labor are transformed by the organization into outputs to the environment.

microeconomic

Which of the following statements about technical view of organizations is not true?

It emphasizes group relationships, values and structures.

Along with capital, _________ is the primary production input that the organization uses to create products and services.

labor

Under Mintzberg's classification of organizational structure, knowledge-based organizations fall under the category of:

professional bureaucracies

Which of the following is not a major feature of organizations that impacts the use of information systems?

Agency costs

Which of the following statements about organizations is not true?

An informal group can be considered to be an organization.

Which of the following statements about business processes is not true?

Business processes are typically unaffected by changes in information systems.