Organizational Theory & Design: questions week 5

Incremental technological change refers to a fundamental shift in technology that revolutionizes products or the way in which they are produced.

False

The Carnegie model offers a less accurate description of how decision-making takes place in an organization than does the rational model.

False

The design of a mechanistic structure facilitates explorative learning whereas the design of an organic structure facilitates exploitative learning.

False

According to Charles Perrow, task variability is the number of new or unexpected situations that a person encounters while performing a task.

True

According to Joan Woodward, the task complexity of a production process is a measure of the extent to which a production process can be programmed so that it can be controlled and made predictable.

True

Demand for a product peaks during the mature stage of the product life cycle.

True

Intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship share a common foundation of creativity and creative destruction.

True

Organizational learning describes the process of how an enriched organizational memory positively changes the behavior or effectiveness of its employees.

False

According to James Thompson, long linked technologies, where tasks are interdependent, thrive with a mutual adjustment type of coordination.

False

The rational model of decision-making assumes that managers are aware of all alternative courses of action and their consequences.

True