Ashford MGT 330 B Week 2 QUIZ

1. Question : All of the following organizations would be very likely to use an organic organizational structure EXCEPT
Student Answer: Blank Walls, an advertising agency
Wonderlight, a manufacturing plant
Smith & Gerot, a management consulting firm
Rough Draft, a graphic design group

Question 2. Question : At which of Alfred Chandler’s four stages of structural development does high product demand cause a crisis for a company?
Student Answer: Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

Question 3. Question : Authority consists of which two key components?
Student Answer: 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 4. Question : During the job design phase, who decides specific job tasks?
Student Answer: share holders
managers
employees
consultants

Question 5. Question : The organizing function includes all of the following activities EXCEPT
Student Answer: job design
departmentalization
specification
funding

Question 6. Question : A manager’s span of control refers to
Student Answer: how many subordinates she oversees
what departments she supervises
what expertise she brings to her position
how long she has held her current position

Question 7. Question : The most common form of departmentalization is by _______________.
Student Answer: product
function
geographic region
customer

Question 8. Question : Management theorist Henry Mintzberg outlined five common parts of an organization’s structural configuration: the operating core, the strategic apex, the middle line, ____________________, and _____________________.
Student Answer: support staff; subordinate workers
design analysts; technostructure
top-level managers; subordinate workers
technostructure; support staff

Question 9. Question : At which of Alfred Chandler’s four stages of structural development does product diversification occur?
Student Answer: Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

Question 10. Question : Brenda is an electrician with Bright Light Home and Business. Into which category of job does she best fit?
Student Answer: semiskilled blue collar
skilled blue collar
semiprofessional
professional