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Organizational Structure
Management Functions
Team and Group Dynamics
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

One of the primary goals of Burberry was to expand its market. When the company evaluated the results of opening two stores in Japan, it was engaged in this management function.

A) Controlling

B) Implementing

C) Organizing

D) Resource Planning

  • A) Controlling
100

The standards used to determine actions acceptable to the group are called this.

  • A) Norms
  • B) Mores
  • C) Controls
  • D) Rules
  • A) Norms
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

The degree to which group members want to stay in the group and resist outside influences is called this.

A) Team Synergy

B) Group Norming

C) Group Cohesiveness

D) Group Custom

  • C) Group Cohesiveness


200

The degree to which group members want to stay in the group and tend to resist outside influences is called this.

  • A) Team Synergy
  • B) Group Norming
  • C) Group Cohesiveness
  • D) Group Custom
  • C) Group Cohesiveness
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The purpose of this business strategy is to completely redesign outdated processes in order to achieve dramatic improvements.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!

Connect 4

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!

Connections -> Wordle
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

Members of the night shift at a textile mill refuse to fill openings on the day shift even though most of the people who work at the plant feel day work is preferable to night work. This phenomenon can be explained by this.

  • A) Team Synergy
  • B) Organizational Philosophy
  • C) Group Custom
  • D) Group Cohesiveness
  • D) Group Cohesiveness
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

This type of organizational structure combines functional and product departmentalization.

  • A) Line Organization
  • B) Committee Structure
  • C) Matrix Structure
  • D) Staff Organization
  • C) Matrix Structure
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 vs 1
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

This type of team is made up of employees from about the same hierarchical level but different functional areas within the organization.

  • A) Cross-Functional Team
  • B) Horizontally-Organized Team
  • C) Vertically-Organized Team
  • D) Problem-Resolution Team
  • A) Cross-Functional Team
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