BUSI 610 Quiz 1 Liberty University

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1. Organizations are static.
2. The study of organizational behavior is:
3. Which of the following is a contingency rather than a structural dimension of an organization?
4. Which of the following integrates diverse organizational activities by looking at various organizational stakeholders and what they want from the organization?
5. _____ describes who reports to whom and the span of control for each manager.
6. The degree to which organizational tasks are subdivided into separate jobs is referred to as
7. The technical core refers to:
8. Contingency factors
9. Models for formulating organizational strategies include:
10. Indicators of effectiveness are quantitative but not qualitative in nature.
11. Successful organizations use a carefully balanced set of ____ goals.
12. The reactor strategy is a strategy because it responds to environmental threats and opportunities in a strategic fashion.
13. Core competence refers to what sets the organization apart from others and provides it with a distinctive edge for meeting customer or client needs in the marketplace.
14. A plan for interacting with the competitive environment to achieve organizational goals is referred to as:
15. Official goals provide ____, while operative goals and strategies provide ____.
16. The differentiation strategy:
17. A horizontal structure is characterized by coordination around geographical areas.
18. What is likely to be the result if a domestic company that manufactures four different types of products changes from a functional structure to a divisional structure?
19. Which of the following is true concerning information in an organization?
20. All of the following, except ____ are symptoms of structural deficiency.
21. A weakness of the functional structure is that it results in a slow response time to environmental change.
22. In the horizontal structure, it is said that:
23. Centralized decision making means decision-making authority is pushed down to lower organizational levels.
24. ____ means decision making authority is pushed down to lower organizational levels.
25. Which of the following is true of a functional structure?
26. As a manager, how would you create an organization with a high degree of relational coordination?