MGMT 3000 Test 2 - UGA Lyons Exam
Questions With Correct Answers.
Organizational Design - answer✔✔The formal systems, levers, and decisions an organization
adopts or employs in pursuit of its strategy.
Division of Labor - answer✔✔The manner in which work in a firm is divided among employees
Vertical Specialization - answer✔✔How much an employee creates, executes, and administers
activities in a certain area of the firm.
Horizontal Specialization - answer✔✔The Breadth of activities that are performed in a certain
job.
Organizers - answer✔✔Those who believe that more control is warranted in organizational
design to ensure that jobs are performed satisfactory and efficiently.
Bureaucratic Approach - answer✔✔An extreme form of organizational control in which systems
are highly formalized and are characterized by extensive rules, procedures, policies, and
institutions.
Behaviorists - answer✔✔Those who support a more open organizational structure where roles
and responsibilities are loosely defined.
Clan Approach - answer✔✔A type of organizational control that includes self-supervising teams
that are responsible for a set of tasks.
Organizational Structure - answer✔✔The pattern of organizational roles, relationships, and
procedures that enable coordinated action among employees.
Defines the roles of the labor force
Coordinates activities between members
Identifies the borders of the firm and external relationships. - answer✔✔What are the three
functions of an organization?
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Functional Structure - answer✔✔A structure that organizes a firm in terms of the main activities
that need to be performed, such as production, marketing, sales, and accounting.
Divisional Structure - answer✔✔A structure that groups diverse functions into separate
divisions.
Matrix Structure - answer✔✔A structure where both divisional and functional managers have
equal authority in the organization
Network Structure - answer✔✔A structure where "Knowledge Workers" are organized to work
as individual contributors or to be a part of a work cluster that provides a certain expertise for the
organization.
Decision Rights - answer✔✔Rights that include initiating, approving, implementing, and
controlling various types of strategic or tactical decisions.
Delegation - answer✔✔The process by which managers transfer decision rights to individual
employees.
Centralized Organization - answer✔✔An organizational structure characterized by formal
structures that control employee behavior by concentrating decisions in a top-down, hierarchical
fashion.
Decentralized Organization - answer✔✔An organizational structure where key decisions are
made at all levels of the firm, not mandated from the top.
Silos - answer✔✔A functional or divisional unit that operates by its own rules and guidelines
and does not openly share information with other units
Mutual Adaptation - answer✔✔The process by which firms import the nature of their
overarching industrial environment and adopt their organization in response to evolving
contextual factors.
Situations that require efficiency of production or functional expertise - answer✔✔Function
structure is best suited for...
Change is a constant, such as technology and fashion - answer✔✔Mutual adaptation is important
to industries where....
Ambidextrous Organizations - answer✔✔Maintain efficiency in current strategic operations
while preparing for imminent changes
Create a separate team to work on future opportunities while the rest of the firm focuses on the
primary business