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Question
(p. 26) A firms _____ is tied inextricably to its survival and profitability.
A. growth
B. prominence
C. fame
D. salability
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(p. 389) __________ about similar circumstances varies from country to country. In North America, individualism is central, but in Japan, the needs of the group dominate.
A. Values and attitudes
B. Religions
C. Educations
D. Social norms
Q:
(p. 388) Foto Show, an online full-service photo processing site, institutionalizes its storytelling among old and new employees alike--they even give awards to reinforce the given theme. This demonstrates:
A. Emphasizing dominant values
B. Encouraging dissemination of legends about core values
C. Building time in the organization
D. Managing organizational culture in a global organization
Q:
(p. 383) The important assumptions shared by members of an organization are often:
A. Very similar to all other organizations in that industry
B. Very obvious to outsiders
C. Unstated
D. Formalized
Q:
(p. 382) Attracting resources and capabilities and developing the business at the front-line management level exemplifies the:
A. Renewal process
B. Integration process
C. Innovation process
D. Entrepreneurial process
Q:
(p. 382) __________ comes from having others want to identify with the leader.
A. Expert influence
B. Peer influence
C. Referent influence
D. Coercive power
Q:
(p. 381) __________ is available when the manager confers something in return for desired actions and outcomes.
A. Punitive power
B. Referent influence
C. Reward power
D. Information power
Q:
(p. 381) _________ is formally established based on the manager's position in the organization.
A. Organization power
B. Reward power
C. Position power
D. Information power
Q:
(p. 381) A key way the characteristics of the desirable manager manifest themselves in a manager's routine activities is found in the way they:
A. Seek to get favorable decisions from corporate management
B. Collaborate with others
C. Choose individual workers
D. Seek to get the work of their unit done over time
Q:
(p. 381) ___________ is character driven.
A. Trust
B. Empathy
C. Communication
D. Organizational management
Q:
(p. 381) Trust starts with ____
A. others
B. empathy
C. self
D. social-management
Q:
(p. 373) Because leaders are attempting to embrace change, they are often _____________ their organization.
A. Abandoning
B. Rebuilding or remaking
C. Divesting businesses in
D. Repositioning
Q:
(p. 371) A key element of good organizational leadership is to make clear the ___________ a leader has for the organization and managers in it, as they seek to move toward the vision. This will help keep the firm on track in the present term.
A. Strategic purpose
B. Strategic goals
C. Alternative structures
D. Performance expectations
Q:
(p. 371) The statement, Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life, is an example of a
A. Leader's principle
B. Mission
C. Leader's vision
D. Strategic intent
Q:
(p. 370) Leaders galvanize commitment to embrace change through __________, building an organization, and shaping organizational culture.
A. by strategic planning
B. developing a mission
C. developing a Vision
D. clarifying strategic intent
Q:
(p. 338) Most businesses in this country and around the world are:
A. Matrix organizations
B. Product-process organizations
C. Simple organizations
D. Strategic business units
Q:
What is a virtual organization?
Q:
Describe globalization as a trend shaping the structuring of businesses today.
Q:
(p. 364) ______ is an organization structured around the idea of sharing knowledge, seeking knowledge and creating opportunities to create new knowledge.
A. A global company
B. A learning organization
C. An ambidextrous organization
D. A modular organization
Q:
(p. 364) 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
Q:
(p. 361) ______ exist between a company and its customers, suppliers, partners, regulators and competitors.
A. Competitive boundaries
B. Horizontal boundaries
C. External interface boundaries
D. Geographic boundaries
Q:
(p. 354) A(n) _______ provides products or services using different, self-contained specialists or companies brought together to contribute their primary or support activity to result in a successful outcome.
A. Outsourcer
B. Ambidextrous organization
C. Modular organization
D. Virtual organization
Q:
(p. 353) 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
Q:
(p. 350) _____ 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
Q:
(p. 349) _____ has led brand marketers to realize they need to take a multidomestic approach to be more responsive to local preferences.
A. The rise of supplier dominance
B. The rise of a consumer culture
C. Globalization in general
D. Environmental awareness
Q:
(p. 347) _______ means removing human minds and hands from an organization's most routine tasks and replacing them with computers and networks.
A. Using the Internet
B. Outsourcing
C. Digitization
D. Coordination
Q:
(p. 347) The result of _______ is coordination, communication and decision-making functions being accomplished quickly and easily, making traditional organizational structures look slow, inefficient and noncompetitive.
A. Globalization
B. The Internet
C. The outsourcing of product design
D. The divisional organizational structure
Q:
(p. 345) Which of the following is NOT a fundamental trend driving decisions about effective organizational structures in the twenty-first century?
A. Globalization
B. Internet
C. Speed
D. External product design
Q:
(p. 344) The _______ seeks to simplify and amplify the focus of resources on a narrow but strategically important product, market, customer or innovation.
A. Product-design structure
B. Matrix team structure
C. Divisional structure
D. Product-team structure
Q:
(p. 342) 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
Q:
(p. 342) The divisions in a _______ operate autonomously.
A. Simple organization
B. Holding company
C. Strategic business unit
D. Matrix organization