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MBA 704 - KUNGU - CHAPTER 3
LATEST QUESTIONS WITH 100%
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS.
The modern approach to organization theory and design consists
of very flexible networks, and recognizes the interaction of
information technology and people. - answer -true
The first major development in organization theory was to view
the organization as a system made up of independent parts. -
answer -FALSE
The contingency approach challenges the organizational ecology
theory. - answer -FALSE
The organizational ecology approach to organization theory
suggests that organizations change as a process of 'survival of
the fittest.' - answer -TRUE
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Under single-loop, the organization is learning with significant
changes in its basic assumptions. - answer -FALSE
Double-loop learning involves changing the organization's culture.
- answer -TRUE
Creative tension stems from the gap between the organizations'
continually upwardly upgraded vision and the reality and suggests
the learning organization's continually questioning and
challenging the status quo. - answer -TRUE
Empathy is reflected by the genuine concern for and the interest
in employee suggestions and innovations that can be
operationalized through a feedback systems. - answer -FALSE
Taken at a more individual employee, organizational behavior
level, employees would react to environmental changes in a
standard, routine response in the adaptive organization, often
resulting in short-run solutions. - answer -TRUE
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In a learning organization, managers learn how to encourage their
people to redirect their energies toward the substance of
disagreements rather than toward personality clashes or political
infighting. - answer -TRUE
Creativity includes the willingness to accept personality clashes. -
answer -FALSE
Managers at a learning organization encourage risk-taking,
creative behavior by providing a challenging environment. -
answer -FALSE
In a learning organization, the vision is provided by the top
management. - answer -FALSE
In horizontal organizations, the primary driver and measure of
performance is customer satisfaction, not profits or stock
appreciation. - answer -TRUE
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When parts of the product or service are outsourced, it's called
the "Hollow Organization" design. - answer -FALSE
Horizontal, hollow and modular organization designs are
sometimes subsumed under the single term "Network Designs." -
answer -TRUE
Greenfield redesign means breaking completely from the classical
structure and establishing a totally different design. - answer -
TRUE
In network redesign, established companies return to a previously
successful design by eliminating unproductive structural additions
and modifications. - answer -FALSE
One network approach is to require internal units of a firm to
interact at market prices - buy and sell to each other at prices
equal to those that can be obtained by outsourcing partners. -
answer -TRUE
MBA 704 - KUNGU - CHAPTER 3
LATEST QUESTIONS WITH 100%
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS.
The modern approach to organization theory and design consists
of very flexible networks, and recognizes the interaction of
information technology and people. - answer -true
The first major development in organization theory was to view
the organization as a system made up of independent parts. -
answer -FALSE
The contingency approach challenges the organizational ecology
theory. - answer -FALSE
The organizational ecology approach to organization theory
suggests that organizations change as a process of 'survival of
the fittest.' - answer -TRUE
,2 | Page
Under single-loop, the organization is learning with significant
changes in its basic assumptions. - answer -FALSE
Double-loop learning involves changing the organization's culture.
- answer -TRUE
Creative tension stems from the gap between the organizations'
continually upwardly upgraded vision and the reality and suggests
the learning organization's continually questioning and
challenging the status quo. - answer -TRUE
Empathy is reflected by the genuine concern for and the interest
in employee suggestions and innovations that can be
operationalized through a feedback systems. - answer -FALSE
Taken at a more individual employee, organizational behavior
level, employees would react to environmental changes in a
standard, routine response in the adaptive organization, often
resulting in short-run solutions. - answer -TRUE
,3 | Page
In a learning organization, managers learn how to encourage their
people to redirect their energies toward the substance of
disagreements rather than toward personality clashes or political
infighting. - answer -TRUE
Creativity includes the willingness to accept personality clashes. -
answer -FALSE
Managers at a learning organization encourage risk-taking,
creative behavior by providing a challenging environment. -
answer -FALSE
In a learning organization, the vision is provided by the top
management. - answer -FALSE
In horizontal organizations, the primary driver and measure of
performance is customer satisfaction, not profits or stock
appreciation. - answer -TRUE
, 4 | Page
When parts of the product or service are outsourced, it's called
the "Hollow Organization" design. - answer -FALSE
Horizontal, hollow and modular organization designs are
sometimes subsumed under the single term "Network Designs." -
answer -TRUE
Greenfield redesign means breaking completely from the classical
structure and establishing a totally different design. - answer -
TRUE
In network redesign, established companies return to a previously
successful design by eliminating unproductive structural additions
and modifications. - answer -FALSE
One network approach is to require internal units of a firm to
interact at market prices - buy and sell to each other at prices
equal to those that can be obtained by outsourcing partners. -
answer -TRUE
