MGT-420 Final Exam questions &
answers graded A+ updated
A major distinction between line and staff units concerns _______________. - correct answer
✔✔linkage of their jobs to the goals of the firm
Compared to the machine bureaucracy (mechanistic type), the professional bureaucracy
(organic type) _______________. - correct 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? - correct
answer ✔✔Specific environment
__________ is grouping individuals by skill, knowledge, and action yields. - correct answer
✔✔Functional departmentation
____________ is the pattern of grouping individuals by skill, knowledge, and action. - correct
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. - correct 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: - correct
answer ✔✔information technology (IT)
answers graded A+ updated
A major distinction between line and staff units concerns _______________. - correct answer
✔✔linkage of their jobs to the goals of the firm
Compared to the machine bureaucracy (mechanistic type), the professional bureaucracy
(organic type) _______________. - correct 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? - correct
answer ✔✔Specific environment
__________ is grouping individuals by skill, knowledge, and action yields. - correct answer
✔✔Functional departmentation
____________ is the pattern of grouping individuals by skill, knowledge, and action. - correct
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. - correct 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: - correct
answer ✔✔information technology (IT)
