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WorksheetsQuiz # 1 - Chapter 7 - BUSA 1010 Winter 2025 2S
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
A clothing retailer divides its stores into men's, women's, and children's departments. This is an example of:
Process departmentalization
Product departmentalization
Geographic departmentalization
Functional departmentalization
The number of employees that a manager can effectively supervise is called:
Chain of command
Unity of command
Span of control
Scale of authority
In a company where supervisors frequently avoid giving tasks to subordinates because "it's faster to do it myself," the organization is likely suffering from:
Over-specialization
Poor delegation
Excessive authority
Structural conflict
A regional bank maintains separate divisions for commercial banking, investment services, and insurance, each operating semi-autonomously. This represents:
Functional structure
Matrix structure
Divisional structure
Virtual structure
Your company has teams that form, complete projects, and dissolve regularly, with members moving between different projects based on their skills. This best describes:
Functional organization
Team organization
Line organization
Staff organization
What is the MOST likely outcome when an organization has extensive job specialization but poor coordination between specialized units?
Increased productivity with higher employee satisfaction
Decreased productivity with higher employee satisfaction
Increased productivity with lower employee satisfaction
Decreased productivity with lower employee satisfaction
A company shifts from having separate managers for each function to allowing cross-functional teams to make decisions. Which organizational challenge is MOST likely to arise?
Unclear accountability
Excessive specialization
Too much centralization
Limited innovation
In implementing a boundaryless organization structure, what represents the MOST significant risk?
Increased operational costs
Loss of strategic focus
Technology implementation issues
Reduced employee motivation
A rapidly growing tech startup is experiencing communication breakdowns and unclear reporting relationships. The MOST effective solution would be to:
Implement more specialization
Increase departmentalization
Establish clear lines of authority
Add more management layers
A global company wants to balance local responsiveness with global efficiency. Which organizational structure would be MOST appropriate?
Pure functional structure
Matrix structure with geographic and product divisions
Simple line structure
Virtual organization structure
