Management Unit 4 Quiz

_____ trusts the employee's ability and gives him or her the authority to make decisions.

Employee empowerment

Which of the following is a feeling of intrinsic motivation, in which workers perceive their work to have meaning and perceive themselves to be competent?

Empowerment

An analysis of an organization's external environment begins with an assessment of the company's distinctive competencies and core capabilities.

False

Companies face very little uncertainty in their strategic business environments.

False

Companies that succeed constantly re-examine strategies or competitive practices that have been successful in the past to ascertain their probable future success.

False

Industry-level strategy is a corporate strategy that addresses the question, "How should we compete against a particular firm in our industry?"

False

Once a firm proves an integrated strategy is successful, the same strategy can be used for the next 25 years.

False

The integrated strategy of Porter's competitive strategies allows managers to focus on only differentiation or low cost.

False

While organizational structure emphasizes the activities through which work is done in the organization, organizational process emphasizes jobs and their authority relationships.

False

Which of the following involves increasing the number of different tasks and giving workers authority to make meaningful decisions?

Job enlargement and job enrichment

Jenny works for Company A and she spends her days inputting monotonous data into the system. Jenny is getting very bored because the task is repetitive. Which of the following causes her boredom?

Low degree of task identity

Which of the following is an approach to managing interorganizational processes?

Modular organizations

Which of the following is true for modular organizations?

Outsource all but the essential business functions

Which of the following structures is ideal for companies that offer multiple product lines?

Product structure

Which of the following is NOT an internal factor impacting organizational design?

Regulation

_____ is the degree to which a person is in charge of completing an identifiable piece of work from start to finish.

Task identity

Companies often choose a stability strategy when their external environment doesn't change much or after they have struggled with periods of explosive growth.

True

From a competitive standpoint, resource similarity means that the strategic actions a company takes could probably be matched by its direct competitors.

True

Specialized jobs are characterized by simple, easy-to-learn steps, low variety, and high repetition.

True

The coordination of departmental activities tends to be more difficult with the geographic approach to departmentalization than with the other approaches.

True

The two disadvantages associated with product departmentalization are costly duplication and difficulties with cross-departmental coordination.

True

As a result of their structures, matrix organizations automatically violate the principle of which of the following?

Unity of command

The term _____ refers to the degree that decision making is concentrated at the top of an organization.

centralization

Organizational authority is traditionally characterized by _____.

chain of command

In the _____ phase of the growth cycle, the founders of an organization focus on creating a product or service.

creativity

An executive calls for local branch managers to have more power for day to day decisions. This is an example of _____.

decentralization

In the _____ phase of the growth cycle, middle managers are freed up to make decisions, and executives focus on the big picture.

delegation

Job specialization can most likely result in _____.

employee boredom

Which of the following is the traditional approach to create an organization structure?

A structure with vertical and horizontal configurations

_____ is the degree to which a person has the freedom to decide how to perform the tasks.

Autonomy