PSU MGT 201 L5

The process by which managers decide how to divide into specific jobs the tasks that have to be performed to provide customers with goods and services is known as: 

•  job design.

• job enlargement.

• task significance.

• organizing

A manager increases the number of tasks that a subordinate has to do in order to make the job more interesting for the subordinate. Which of the following best describes this process? 

• Feedback

•  Job enlargement

• Job simplification

• Job enrichment

A manager redesigns the job of a subordinate so that the subordinate has more responsibility over his or her job. Which of the following best describes this process? 

• Job enlargement
  

• Job simplification

• Job enrichment

• Job design

In ABC Company, each product line is managed within a division. In each of these divisions, the division manager is responsible for creating the business-level strategy for the product line. What type of structure is the organization using? 

• Geographic structure

• Market structure

• Product structure

• Matrix structure

Which of the following is an organizational structure composing of all the departments that an organization requires to produce its goods or services? 

• Functional

•  Matrix

• Continuous-process

• Divisional

In designing an organization, if managers are grouped both by function and by product at the same time, what type of organizational structure is being used? 

• Market structure

• Geographic structure

• Product structure

• Matrix structure

The number of subordinates who report directly to a manager is known as what aspect of that manager's responsibility? 

• Unity of command

• Hierarchy of authority

• Mechanicism

• Span of control

General Motor Co. brings together senior managers from marketing, R&D, manufacturing, accounting, and finance to work together on a project team to design a new type of sport utility vehicle. This is an example of: 

• a cross-functional team.

• a mass-production team.

• a continuous-process team.

• a standing committee.

The manager of the finacial department of a company is a(n) _____ manager. 

•  line
  

• product
  

• staff
  

• task force