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Subramanian Rangan calls the shift characterizing the growing importance of organizational structures that enable global companies the chance to build competitive advantage:


A) Exploration to exploitation
B) Exploitation to exploration
C) Integration to innovation
D) Exploitation to innovation

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The ________ has the potential disadvantage of increased costs of coordination with another "pricy" level of management.


A) Matrix organizational structure
B) Product-team structure
C) Holding company
D) Strategic business unit

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The ________ is an organization structure most notable for its lack of structure wherein knowledge and getting it to the right place quickly is the key reason for organization.


A) Modular organization
B) Joint venture
C) Learning organization
D) Ambidextrous organization

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The strategic challenge presented by the functional structure is _____________ of the functional units.


A) Developing narrow technical expertise
B) The measurability of functional units
C) Good separation
D) Effective coordination

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_______ exist between operations and management and levels of management.


A) External interface boundaries
B) Horizontal boundaries
C) Geographic boundaries
D) Vertical boundaries

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Product teams:


A) Can tend to slow down innovation
B) Reduce costs associated with design, manufacturing and marketing
C) Place an absolute limit on customer responsiveness
D) Are temporary structures

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Simple organizational structures are most efficacious in businesses that serve:


A) A broad, international product/market
B) A highly fragmented market
C) A cost-competitive product/market
D) A local product/market or narrow niche

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_____ is redesigning an organizational structure with the intent of emphasizing and enabling activities most critical to the firm's strategy to function at maximum effectiveness.


A) Restructuring
B) Empowerment
C) Business process reengineering
D) Implementing the learning organization

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When the diversity,size and number of units continue to increase,it may become necessary to ________ in order to improve implementation,promote synergy and gain greater control over the diverse business interests.


A) Eliminate at least one level of management
B) Revert to a functional structure
C) Add another layer of management
D) Further delegate

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Team members in a product-team structure are:


A) Assigned on a temporary basis
B) Assigned to very broad tasks within a division
C) Assigned on a permanent basis
D) Managed increasingly compared to a matrix structure

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A ______ is used to temporarily put people and resources where they are most needed.


A) Divisional organizational structure
B) Product-team structure
C) Matrix organizational structure
D) Functional organizational structure

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Functional structures predominate in firms with:


A) An emphasis on catering to individual customers' needs
B) Rapidly changing markets and technologies
C) A broad national market
D) A single or narrow product focus

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In a _________,communication is highly informal.


A) Simple organizational structure
B) Strategic business unit
C) Holding company
D) Functional organizational structure

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Today,global means:


A) Locating operations in numerous countries
B) Selling goods in overseas markets
C) Using resources from other markets
D) Getting resources and talent from around the globe and selling worldwide

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Corporations today are increasingly seeing their structure become an elaborate network of external and internal relationships.This is known as:


A) Webbing
B) The agile organization
C) Outsourcing
D) The virtual organization

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The divisions in a _______ operate autonomously.


A) Simple organization
B) Holding company
C) Strategic business unit
D) Matrix organization

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One outcome of downsizing is increased _______ at operating levels of the company.This is allowing work groups or teams to supervise and administer their work without a direct supervisor exercising the supervisory role.


A) Self-management
B) Empowerment
C) Reengineering
D) Restructuring

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A(n) ________ is one that identifies a set of business capabilities central to high-profitability operations and then builds a virtual organization around those capabilities.


A) Modular organization
B) Agile organization
C) Virtual structure
D) Ambidextrous organization

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A __________ is one in which the tasks,people and technologies necessary to do the work of the business are divided into separate groups with increasingly formal procedures for coordinating and integrating their activities to provide the business's products and services.


A) Functional organizational structure
B) Matrix organizational structure
C) Divisional structure
D) Simple organizational structure

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The advantages and disadvantages of the ________ are very similar to those of divisional structures.


A) Simple business structure
B) Strategic business unit
C) Matrix organizational structure
D) Functional structure

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