A major distinction between line and staff units concerns _______________. - Answer-linkage of their jobs to the goals of the firm
Compared to the machine bureaucracy (mechanistic type), the professional bureaucracy (organic type) _______________. - Answer-has more horizontal specialization and ...
MGT-420 Final Exam Questions and
Answers
A major distinction between line and staff units concerns _______________. - Answer-
linkage of their jobs to the goals of the firm
Compared to the machine bureaucracy (mechanistic type), the professional
bureaucracy (organic type) _______________. - Answer-has more horizontal
specialization and coordination mechanism
The owners, suppliers, distributors, government agencies, and competitors with which
an organization must interact to grow and survive are part of which type of
environment? - Answer-Specific environment
__________ is grouping individuals by skill, knowledge, and action yields. - Answer-
Functional departmentation
____________ is the pattern of grouping individuals by skill, knowledge, and action. -
Answer-Functional departmentation
Executives, managers, and supervisors are hierarchically connected through the
__________, which is a listing of who reports to whom up and down the firm. - Answer-
chain of command
The combination of machines, artifacts, procedures, and systems used to gather, store,
analyze, and disseminate information so that it can be translated into knowledge is
known as: - Answer-information technology (IT)
Which of the following is an accurate statement about an adhocracy? - Answer-The
design facilitates information exchange and learning
Along with their upper and lower control limits, a control chart graphs: - Answer-quality
standards.
When a soccer coach tells her players at the end of a losing game, "You did good in
staying with the game plan," she is using a/an ____________ as a measure of
performance. - Answer-input standard
When one team member advises another team member that "your behavior is crossing
the line in terms of our expectations for workplace civility," she is exercising a form of
________ control over the other's inappropriate behaviors. - Answer-clan
Management by exception means ____________. - Answer-focusing attention where
the need for action is greatest
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