Jane owns a company that prepares and sends customized goody baskets to a firm's clients
depending on their special requests. This is an example of ___________ technology.
a. continuous-process
b. unit
c. specialization
d. customer
e. none of these
Question 2All of the following are true regarding life cycle except
a. life cycle tends to be related to size.
b. the final stage for an organization may be one of decline or regrowth.
c. the organization design needed for different stages of an organization's life cycle
will be different.
d. life cycle is a situational element that has been found to affect the appropriate
organization design.
e. All of these statements are true.
Question 3All of the following are reported research conclusions except
a. smaller organizations tend to be less specialized.
b. smaller organizations tend to be less standardized.
c. smaller organizations tend to be less centralized.
d. smaller organizations tend to be more decentralized.
e. larger and smaller organizations differ from one another in three important ways.
Question 4Ray owns and operates a small, rural farm. His organization should be ____________ than a
large organization.
a. more specialized
b. less specialized
c. more standardized
d. more decentralized
e. none of these
Question 5All of the following are situational influences on organization design except
a. type of departmentalization.
b. size.
c. technology.
d. the environment.
e. All of these are contingency factors affecting organization design.
Question 6All of the following statements are true of the System 4 approach except that
a. it holds that the bureaucratic model has numerous drawbacks.
b. it advocates a System 4 design.
c. it is not presented as a universal guideline.
d. its premise is that most organizations start with a System l design.
e. organization design can be described as a continuum.
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