Management Chap 06

_____ is the degree to which the overall task of the organization is broken down and divided into smaller componentparts

• Job specialization
• Job enrichment
• Job rotation
• Job enlargement
• Task identity

The _____ design is essentially a holding company that results from unrelated diversification

• H-form
• U-form
• divisional
• departmental
• M-form

Which of the following is an advantage of job specialization?

• It decreases transfer time between tasks.
• It increases the level of employee satisfaction.
• It eliminates monotony and boredom.
• It provides stimulation and challenges to employees.
• It significantly reduces employee turnover rates.

In job _____, the jobs do not change, but instead workers move from job to job.

• rotation
• specialization
• enrichment
• deskilling
• enlargement

In the context of the job characteristics approach, skill variety refers to the

• extent to which a worker knows how well the job is being performed.
• degree of control a worker has over how the work is performed.
• perceived importance of a task.
• extent to which a worker does a complete or identifiable portion of the total job.
• number of things a person does in a job.

Creating different teams for finance, production, and marketing is consistent with _____ departmentalization.

• location
• product
• functional
• sequential
• customer

Relish Inc. is a large corporation in the food industry that manufactures canned foods, confectionery, and baked foods. The organization has a separate department for each of these types of food manufactured. Each department integrates all the activities required to manage its respective line of food. Which of the following types of departmentalization is illustrated in the scenario?

• Sequential
• Customer
• Product
• Location
• Functional

_____ is defined as a clear and distinct line of authority among the positions in an organization.

• Chain of command
• Span of management
• Job deskilling
• Flat structure
• Synergy

When compared to flat organizations, tall organizations

• foster fewer communication problems.
• foster more employee productivity.
• are more expensive
• place excessive responsibilities on managers.
• are less bureaucratic.

_____ is defined as the process of linking the activities of the various departments of an organization.

• Centralization
• Specialization
• Decentralization
• Coordination
• Delegation