Question 1.
The organizing function includes all of the following activities EXCEPT
job design
departmentalization
specification
funding
Question 2.
Shine is a clothing manufacturer with home offices in the United Kingdom and the United States, factories in Bangladesh and Indonesia, and distribution hubs in China and Brazil. Which type of departmentalization MOST applies to Shine?
strategic business unit
geographic region
product
matrix
Question 3.
The five coordinated flows of production are authority, decision process, ideology, _______________, and ________________.
strategy; information
work material; strategy
work material; promotion
information; work material
Question 4.
Authority consists of which two key components?
the right to act and permission to direct
the right to direct and permission to act
the right to decide and permission to repair
the right to repair and permission to decide
Question 5.
French management authority Henri Fayol described the concept of parity of authority and responsibility, which refers to an authority figure’s
obligation to employees
commanding presence
accountability
respectability and honor
Question 6.
Chaturanga is a yoga supply company that uses a business-to-business (B2B) model for selling yoga mats to yoga specialty stores. What kind of departmentalization does this represent?
departmentalization by strategic business unit
departmentalization by product
departmentalization by customer
departmentalization by matrix
Question 7.
Which type of organizational structure is prone to duplication of activities and counterproductive inter-market customer competition?
machine bureaucracy
professional bureaucracy
divisional structure
adhocracy
Question 8.
At which of Alfred Chandler’s four stages of structural development does product diversification occur?
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Question 9.
All of the following organizations would be very likely to use an organic organizational structure EXCEPT
Blank Walls, an advertising agency
Wonderlight, a manufacturing plant
Smith & Gerot, a management consulting firm
Rough Draft, a graphic design group
Question 10.
At which of Alfred Chandler’s four stages of structural development does high product demand cause a crisis for a company?
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
