Organizational Structure
Theories
Management and Motivation
Organizational Design and Change
Centralization & Span of Control
How Well Do You Know Mr. G?
100
This involves coordinating and allocating a firm’s resources so that the firm can carry out its plans and achieve its goals.
A) Implementing
B) Organizing
C) Resource Planning
D) Controlling
- B) Organizing
100
What is something that prompts an individual to release his or her energy in a certain direction?
- A) Motivation
- B) Operations management
- C) Human relations
- D) Personnel management
- A) Motivation
100
Theory X managers view their workers as _____ and _____.
- A) Untrustworthy; unmotivated
- B) Motivated; trustworthy
- C) Creative; driven
- D) Happy; productive
- A) Untrustworthy; unmotivated
100
An organization chart shows these types of relationships among people, jobs, and departments.
- A) Informal Relationships
- B) Casual Relationships
- C) Formal Relationships
- D) Hierarchical Relationships
C) Formal Relationships
100
Centralization refers to the degree to which decision-making authority is concentrated at the top of an organization. This style is most similar to which management approach?
A) Autocratic
B) Democratic
C) Free-Rein
D) Delegated
A) Autocratic
100
What is the name of Mr. G's Cat?
A. Junior
B. Sparky
C. Steve
D. Garfield
A. Junior
200
The process of dividing the work and assigning tasks to workers.
- A) Task Division
- B) Division of Labor
- C) Grouping of Workers
- D) Functional Division
B) Division of Labor
200
GAME!
1 person per group. Grab a sheet of paper, and wager points. Winner gets all!
- Basket toss!
200
The _____ style of management is based on a pessimistic view of human nature and assumes that the average person dislikes work, will try to avoid work, prefers to be directed, avoids responsibility, and wants security above all else.
- A) Theory X
- B) Theory Y
- C) Theory Z
- D) Self-actualized
- A) Theory X
200
The purpose of this business strategy is to completely redesign outdated processes in order to achieve dramatic improvements.
- A) Downsizing
- B) Reengineering
- C) Quality Improvement
- D) Operational Control
B) Reengineering
200
GAME!
Group Gets to challenge, with the winner taking the others points
geoguessr
200
Where did I do my student teaching?
A. Joel Barlow High School
B. Schaghticoke Middle School (New Milford)
C. John Read Middle School
D. Danbury High School
D. Danbury
300
GAME!
1 person per group!
Slitherio
300
A supervisor engaged in this is grouping people, tasks, and resources into organizational units to facilitate the planning, leading, and control processes.
- A) Departmentalization
- B) Standardization
- C) Functionalization
- D) Task Integration
- A) Departmentalization
300
Bart Pietz works as a paramedic. Because he has just worked a plane crash and has been 20 hours without rest, he is extremely sleepy. Pietz needs to satisfy his _____ need.
- A) Physiological
- B) Esteem
- C) Security
- D) Social
- A) Physiological
300
This type of organization is characterized by a relatively high degree of job specialization, rigid departmentalization, many layers of management, narrow spans of control, centralized decision making, and a long chain of command.
- A) Organic Organization
- B) Network Organization
- C) Mechanistic Organization
- D) Matrix Organization
- C) Mechanistic Organization
300
Which factor narrows a manager’s span of control?
A) Employees located in the same building
B) Routine and simple tasks
C) Strong delegation ability
D) Very high levels of required feedback
D) Very high levels of required feedback
300
Mr. G is the oldest child in his family, he has a brother who is two years younger, and a sister that is ___ old.
A) 13
B) 22
C) 16
D) 7
A) 13
400
According to _____, workers respond to attention from superiors, and they like their opinions to be valued.
- A) Theory X
- B) Maintenance factors
- C) the Hawthorne effect
- D) Scientific management
- C) the Hawthorne effect
400
This is a permanent organization structure that combines functional and product departmentalization.
- A) Matrix Structure
- B) Line-and-Staff Structure
- C) Functional Structure
- D) Network Structure
A) Matrix Structure
400
GAME!
1 person in the group
- Heardle
400
This term describes a network of independent companies linked by information technology to share skills, costs, and access to one another's markets.
- A) Virtual Corporation
- B) Autonomous Corporation
- C) Hierarchical Corporation
- D) Network Corporation
- A) Virtual Corporation
400
Decentralization is defined as:
A) Pushing decision-making downward in the hierarchy
B) Eliminating all management layers
C) Concentrating authority strictly at headquarters
D) Replacing supervisors with committees
A) Pushing decision-making downward in the hierarchy
400
Which one of these is a lie?
A) When Mr. G went to Myrtle Beach, he bought a hermit crab only to find out it is single handedly, one of the most disgusting creatures on the planet and refused to touch or look at it.
B) Somewhere on YouTube, Mr. G has a channel where he posted gaming videos, but he can't remember the password to delete them.
C) Mr. G was in a commercial as a child for a pet store that went bankrupt, leaving his brief moment of stardom tied to a business that no longer exists.
D) Mr. G's worst subject in high school was Chemistry, where he had a teacher that would repeatedly blame any students failing on her imaginary ghost "Myrtle".
B) Somewhere on YouTube, Mr. G has a channel where he posted gaming videos, but he can't remember the password to delete them.
500
A structure in which authority and responsibility are held by a group of workers (typically free) rather than a single manager is called this.
- A) Functional Structure
- B) Staff Structure
- C) Line Structure
- D) Committee Structure
- D) Committee Structure
500
This is the degree to which tasks are subdivided into smaller jobs.
- A) Centralization
- B) Task Breakdown
- C) Specialization
- D) Functionalization
C) Specialization
500
When Maslow wrote, "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be," he was more than likely referring to man's:
- A) Social needs
- B) Self-actualization needs
- C) Esteem needs
- D) Psychological needs
- E) Safety needs
- B) Self-actualization needs
500
This type of organization has a relatively low degree of job specialization, loose departmentalization, few levels of management, wide spans of control, decentralized decision making, and a short chain of command.
- A) Mechanistic Organization
- B) Network Organization
- C) Functional Organization
- D) Organic Organization
- D) Organic Organization
500
Which of the following situations would MOST likely require a narrow span of control?
A) A production team performing the same simple task
B) A remote sales force operating independently
C) A research department working on complex, specialized projects
D) A customer service center with automated workflow
C) A research department working on complex, specialized projects
500
Which one of these actually happened?
a. When I was 4th grade, I got Locked in an Airplane bathroom for two hours
b. Had to get rescued by the fire department after climbing a tree
c. Accidentally using my friends EPI Pen on myself during lunch
d. On a six flags field trip, my phone flew out of my pocket during the ride, and hits a passenger. They refused to give it back and had to leave without it.
a. When I was 4th grade, I got Locked in an Airplane bathroom for two hours