Types of Groupings Quiz

Which of the following is a way organizations group activities?

• Functional Grouping

• Random Grouping

• Seasonal Grouping

• Color Grouping

Which grouping focuses on the customers?

• Functional Grouping

• Product/Service Grouping

• Customer Grouping

• Technological Grouping

What is the traditional method of organizing a firm into departments based on their core activities?

• Functional Grouping

• Random Grouping

• Alphabetical Grouping

• Color Grouping

What can happen to decision making in functional grouping?

• It becomes faster

• It becomes slower

• It improves

• It stays the same

What can functional grouping become unresponsive to?

• Internal changes

• Market changes

• Employee needs

• Resource allocation

What does functional grouping aim to reduce?

• Employee skills

• Resource duplication

• Market changes

• Communication speed

What is the main idea of product/service grouping?

• Organizing a company by its products

• Hiring more employees

• Reducing company size

• Increasing product prices

What is encouraged by product/service grouping?

• Customer loyalty

• Resource sharing

• Department competition

• Effort duplication

What is a disadvantage related to departments in product/service grouping?

• They can respond quickly

• They may compete with each other

• They encourage loyalty

• They share resources easily

What is one advantage of customer grouping?

• It encourages customer loyalty.

• It increases competition.

• It makes sharing resources easier.

• It duplicates efforts.