MGMT 443 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
Analyzer - Answers - Tries to maintain a stable business while innovating on the
periphery
Contingency factors - Answers - Culture, size, goals and strategy, environment, and
technology
Culture or People means - Answers - This area governs the human resource policies of
recruiting, selection, rotation, training, and development
Defender - Answers - A strategy that is basically the opposite of prospector strategy. It
is concerned with stability
Seeks to hold on to current customers but it neither innovates or seeks growth
Define Horizontal linkages - Answers - Involve communication and coordination that
takes place across organizational departments
Define Vertical linkage - Answers - Are used to coordinate activities between the top
and bottom of the organization (facilitate control)
Differentiation Strategy - Answers - The organization competes through the ability to
offer unique or distinctive products and services that come at a premium price
Five elements that compose Galbraith's model of Organizational Design - Answers -
Strategy, structure, processes (including decision-making), human resources policies
(including compensation), and culture
Full time integrator - Answers - A stronger horizontal linkage device is to create a full
time position or department solely for the purpose of coordination. Normally with a title
such as product manager, project manager, program manager, or brand manager
Galbraith's model of organizational design is also known as - Answers - Start Model
Hierarchical referral - Answers - Also known as chain of command
High and low levels of structural dimensions: Centralization - Answers - Low Levels:
Higher sense of empowerment
More creativity
Lower procedural fairness
Faster decision making
, High Levels:
Higher decision-making efficiency
High and low levels of structural dimensions: Formalization - Answers - Low Levels:
Higher innovation
Higher motivation
Higher job satisfaction
High Levels:
Lower role ambiguity
Higher behavior predictability
High and low levels of structural dimensions: Hierarchy of Authority - Answers - Low
Levels:
Lower self-actualization
Lower job satisfaction
High Levels:
Less opportunities for advancement
Looser supervision
Higher role ambiguity
Less feelings of security
High and low levels of structural dimensions: Horizontal Complexity - Answers - Low
Levels:
Better coordination between departments
Higher cost efficiency
High Levels:
Better adaptation to complex environment
Greater depth of knowledge
High and low levels of structural dimensions: Specialization - Answers - Low Levels
Higher motivation
Big picture view of the organization
Better coordination
High Levels:
Higher individual efficiency
Lower training costs
More depth of knowledge
Horizontal linkages - Answers - Liaison roles, task forces, full-time integrator, cross-
functional or cross geographical teams, relational coordination
Analyzer - Answers - Tries to maintain a stable business while innovating on the
periphery
Contingency factors - Answers - Culture, size, goals and strategy, environment, and
technology
Culture or People means - Answers - This area governs the human resource policies of
recruiting, selection, rotation, training, and development
Defender - Answers - A strategy that is basically the opposite of prospector strategy. It
is concerned with stability
Seeks to hold on to current customers but it neither innovates or seeks growth
Define Horizontal linkages - Answers - Involve communication and coordination that
takes place across organizational departments
Define Vertical linkage - Answers - Are used to coordinate activities between the top
and bottom of the organization (facilitate control)
Differentiation Strategy - Answers - The organization competes through the ability to
offer unique or distinctive products and services that come at a premium price
Five elements that compose Galbraith's model of Organizational Design - Answers -
Strategy, structure, processes (including decision-making), human resources policies
(including compensation), and culture
Full time integrator - Answers - A stronger horizontal linkage device is to create a full
time position or department solely for the purpose of coordination. Normally with a title
such as product manager, project manager, program manager, or brand manager
Galbraith's model of organizational design is also known as - Answers - Start Model
Hierarchical referral - Answers - Also known as chain of command
High and low levels of structural dimensions: Centralization - Answers - Low Levels:
Higher sense of empowerment
More creativity
Lower procedural fairness
Faster decision making
, High Levels:
Higher decision-making efficiency
High and low levels of structural dimensions: Formalization - Answers - Low Levels:
Higher innovation
Higher motivation
Higher job satisfaction
High Levels:
Lower role ambiguity
Higher behavior predictability
High and low levels of structural dimensions: Hierarchy of Authority - Answers - Low
Levels:
Lower self-actualization
Lower job satisfaction
High Levels:
Less opportunities for advancement
Looser supervision
Higher role ambiguity
Less feelings of security
High and low levels of structural dimensions: Horizontal Complexity - Answers - Low
Levels:
Better coordination between departments
Higher cost efficiency
High Levels:
Better adaptation to complex environment
Greater depth of knowledge
High and low levels of structural dimensions: Specialization - Answers - Low Levels
Higher motivation
Big picture view of the organization
Better coordination
High Levels:
Higher individual efficiency
Lower training costs
More depth of knowledge
Horizontal linkages - Answers - Liaison roles, task forces, full-time integrator, cross-
functional or cross geographical teams, relational coordination
