Organization and Management BS: IGCSE Y10

What is this?

• Mark Zuckerberg's world domination plan

• An Organisational Structure

• A Functional Department

• An Organisational Graph

The roles of management are: Planning, ________, Commanding, Coordinating,______ (respond with all lower-case letters, with three dots between the answers, example: word...word...word...)

Which option is accurately matched?

• Laissez-faire- Goals set by the leader only.

• Democratic- Employees are encouraged to take part in all aspects of decision-making and makes the decisions.

• Autocratic- Most useful during research and development.

• Democratic- Employees are consulted before the final decisions are made by the leaders.

Select all those that are advantages of being part of the Trade Union

• Payment of membership fees

• Improve leadership skills

• All decisions made by the Union have to be followed by everyone, even if they disagree

• Negotiation with management, which can result in the management accepting a compromise, as the employees outnumber management.

• The community of various employees of the same status creates a sense of union and community, and then job security.

Lila is the Sales Director. Under Lila, there are 5 area sales managers. Under each area sales manager, there are 10 salesperson. What is the span of control of Lila? (Clue--direct employees under control, exclude indirect)

• 55

• 5

• 50

• 1

_______________is the structure in an organization which allows instructions to be passed down from senior management to lower levels of management.

• Autocratic leadership style

• span of control

• chain of command

• organizational chart

______________________ refers to the levels of management and division of responsibilities within an organization.

• span of control

• organizational structure

• level of hierarchy

• chain of command

The statements below reflect the advantages of an organizational chart except

• How everybody is linked together in the organization

• Every individual can see their own position in the organization. (who they are accountable to, who they have authority over, who they should take orders from)

• Everyone is in a department and this gives them a sense of belonging

• Everyone knows who has higher earnings and benefits

________________________ is the removal of one or more layers of hierarchy from the management structure of an organisation.

• Delegation

• Delayering

• Laissez Faire leadership style

• Democratic leadership style

Which is NOT an advantage of a tall organizational structure?

• More opportunities for promotion and career progression

• Enables a wide span of control

• Able too maintain closer working relationship with individual subordinates. (increasing their motivation and commitment)

• Easier to know what subordinates doing and what problems they are having