PMP W3 Organisational architecture

Organisational architecture includes

• The structure of the company

• People and processes within the company

• Incentives

• All of them

Organisational structure includes

• The location of decision-making

• The division of the company into subunits

• Both of them

• Neither of them

The reason why companies use incentives is to

• motivate people

• reduce staffing costs

• comply with the law

• All of them

Worldwide product division structure is most suitable for companies that have

• localisation strategy

• global standardisation strategy

• decentralised decision-making

• focus on exports

Worldwide area structure is most suitable for companies that have

• pressures for localisation

• pressures for cost cutting

• global standardisation strategy

• all of them

Which of these is not an advantage of decentralised decision-making

• Motivates people

• Enables good ideas to be heard

• Ensures that all units follow the same plan

• Increases flexibility

Which of these is not an advantage of centralised decision-making

• Enables fast decisions

• Promotes shared objectives

• Motivates people

• Avoids duplication of activities

What type of a company would be likely to have this kind of organisation?

• Established multinational giant

• State owned enterprise

• A company that is expanding, but strongest at its domestic market

• A company with transnational strategy

Which one is an advantage of this structure?

• Top management knows what is happening in foreign markets

• The international division learn from the domestic experts

• Both of them

• Neither of tem