MGMT3361-quiz09

Where standardization is important, it is appropriate to ______

centralize authority

While ____________ emphasizes jobs and their authority relationships, ____________ emphasizes the activities through which work gets done in the organization.

organizational structure; organizational process

The marketing manager of a company that manufactures church furniture has been given the job of increasing corporate profits by 5 percent during the upcoming year. The manager decided to give his assistant the full responsibility and authority for developing a mailing campaign to target churches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In other words, the marketing manager has_______________

delegated the task

Which of the following statements about functional departmentalization is true?

Functional departmentalization allows work to be done by highly qualified specialists

Which of the following statements about the organic form of organization design is true?

The organic form of organization design is characterized by broadly defined jobs and responsibility; loosely defined, frequently changing roles; and decentralized authority and horizontal communication based on task knowledge.

Which of the following is NOT one of the core job characteristics in the job characteristics model (JCM)?

client relationships

As a class project, Senora is working with other classmates to create a company that would market NASCAR memorabilia. Senora's teacher has instructed her to use the traditional approach to create the organization's structure. What should Senora do?

create an organizational structure with vertical and horizontal configurations

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

modular organizations

Honeywell Inc. reorganized its European operations along customer lines to prepare for a unified European Union.In doing so, it abandoned matrix departmentalization. Why would Honeywell engage in such restructuring?

to end conflict between product managers in different parts of its matrix

Which of the following statements about matrix departmentalization is true?

All of these statements about matrix departmentalization are true.