Chapter 12--Managing Organization DesignChapter 12--Managing Organization Design
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1. Organizational design is the building block. Job design is how the blocks are put together.
True False 2. The appropriate degree of specialization can vary, but not the appropriate span of management.
True False 3. Organization design is a means to implement strategies and plans to achieve organizational goals.
True False 4. One of the primary strengths of a bureaucratic form of organization structure is how it prevents favoritism.
True False 5. The bureaucratic model is the model of organization design consistent with the human relations movement that stresses attention to developing work groups and concern with interpersonal processes.
True False 6. A strength of Likert's System design is that it finds one best way to design an organization.
True False 7. Orange County Choppers makes custom motorcycles. It uses continuous-process technology.
True False 8. Woodward considered continuous-process technology simple compared to large-batch technology.
True False 9. Exxon Mobil is an example of an organization that uses large-batch technology.
True False 10. According to Burns and Stalker, firms that use an organic design are the most successful firms in a stable environment.
True False 11. A manager at Johnson & Johnson has considerable discretion over how work is performed and how problems are solved. Johnson & Johnson is mechanistic.
True False 12. Differentiation is the degree to which various subunits must work together in a coordinated fashion.
True False 13. Organic organizations do not go through the organization life cycle.
True False 14. Business-level strategies affect the