Question $1(1$ point$)$

What is the particular grouping of activities performed by an individual?

Question $1$ options:

standardization

acceptance

vertical differentiation

despecialization

departmentalization

Question $2(1$ point$)$

When an advertising firm lands a new contract, the successful team rings a loud bell and breaks out a bottle of champagne. In organizational culture, this practice would be considered:

Question $2$ options:

a ceremony

irrelevant to the meaning or study of organizational culture

a mental model

unethical

a symptom of a culture that is out of touch with its external environment

Question $3(1$ point$)$

A wider span of control is possible where:

Question $3$ options:

the supervised employees are new and not fully trained

the organizations have a tall hierarchy

the supervised employees perform similar tasks

the supervised employees have non$-$routine jobs

Question $4(1$ point$)$

What is the term for the process of ensuring that everyone in the organization works together?

Question $4$ options:

decentralization

centralization

hierarchy of authority

horizontal complexity

coordination

Question $5(1$ point$)$

The workers of Smith Company truly believe that the way they do things at their organization is the right way. This sentiment best reflects a$($an$)\_\_\_\_$ culture.

Question $5$ options:

strong

weak

sub

multi$-$cultural

effective

Question $6(1$ point$)$

Rituals are:

Question $6$ options:

deliberate attempts to communicate the corporate culture to new employees

physical structures that convey the dominant values of an organization$$s culture

games that people play to defy the dominant culture and, instead, support countercultural beliefs and values

programmed routines of daily organizational life that dramatize the organization$$s culture.

events that suggest the organization$$s culture is about to change

Question $7(1$ point$)$

In organizational structures, integrator roles serve mainly as:

Question $7$ options:

a form of standardization

an informal communicating coordinating mechanism

a form of direct supervision

one of four types of technology

the main element in divisionalized structures

Question $8(1$ point$)$

What is the span of control?

Question $8$ options:

vertical differentiation

who reports to whom in the organization

the department layouts

the number of employees a manager supervises

the number of levels in the organization

Question $9(1$ point$)$

All organizational structures have the following two fundamental requirements:

Question $9$ options:

flatter span of control and decentralization

division of labour and coordination

decentralization and divisionalization

coordination and decentralization

centralization and outsourcing

Question $10(1$ point$)$

Candoo Ltd will soon flatten its hierarchy by removing two of the five layers of management. If the number of employees in the organization remains constant, which of the following must occur?

Question $10$ options:

It must adopt a product structure

It must adopt a matrix form of departmentalization

It must narrow the span of control

It must adopt a functional structure

It must widen the span of control

Question $11(1$ point$)$

Which of the following applies to a mechanistic structure?

Question $11$ options:

formalization and specialization are high, and complexity is low

formalization and specialization are low, and integration is weak

formalization and specialization are low, and complexity is high

formalization and specialization are low, and centralization is high

formalization and specialization are high, and centralization is high