Fundamental of Management Quiz 7

The people with authority and responsibility are subject to reporting and justifying task outcomes to those above them in the chain of command. This is called _____.

Accountability

Jacob was recently looking at his company's organization chart in an attempt to discover who reports to whom. Jacob is studying his organization's:

Chain of command

Gina wishes to transfer authority and responsibility to her subordinates. This process is known as:

Delegation

Which of the following is the basis for grouping positions into departments and departments into the total organization?

Departmentalization

All of the following are advantages of a functional structure EXCEPT:

Excellent coordination between functions

Which of the following structures is most consistent with a strategy of stability?

Functional structure

Salta Communications is a global telecommunications company that has operations on four continents. The CEO's direct supervisors include VPs for the North American South American, European, and the Asian divisions. Salta can best be described as using what organizational structure?

Geographic

All functions in a specific country or region report to the same division manager in _____ divisions.

Geographic-based

Which department performs tasks that reflect the organization's primary goals and mission?

Line

Which of the following typically is NOT considered a staff department?

Manufactuering

Carly's Clothes, Inc. manufactures children's clothes. Which of the following departments for Carly's Clothes can be considered a line department?

Manufacturing

A formal chain of command for both functional and divisional relationships is provided by the _____ approach to structure.

Matrix

Kent works at the Tick Tock, Inc. He has two bosses, one a functional manager and the other a divisional manager. Tick Tock, Inc. has a _____ structure.

Matrix

Which of the following refers to the deployment of organizational resources to achieve strategic goals?

Organizing

Which of the following leads to strong coordination across functional areas and greater flexibility in responding to changes in the environments?

Reengineering

An advantage of functional structures is the:

Resulting economies of scale

_____ means that decision authority is located near the _____ of the organization.

centralization; top

Change and uncertainty in the environment are usually associated with _____.

decentralization

When work specialization is extensive:

employees perform a single task

Relative to the functional structure, the divisional structure:

encourages decentralization

All of the following are the major disadvantages of the matrix structure EXCEPT:

enlarged tasks for employees

Global companies often use a _____ structure to achieve simultaneous coordination of products across countries.

matrix

Typically, project managers have authority over _____ but not over _____ assigned to it.

the project; people

Which of the following refers to the number of employees reporting to a supervisor?

the span of management

The _____ is an organization structure that divides the major functions of the organization into separate companies.

virtual network approach