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Which is an advantage of the divisional structure?

A) Concern for customers' needs is high
B) There is little duplication of services across divisions
C) There is good coordination across divisions
D) Top management retains tight control of the organization
E) There is no competition for corporate resources

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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A(n)____________________ structure has a wide span,is horizontally dispersed,and has fewer hierarchical levels.

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Boars' Nest Distributors is continually hampered by an inability to adapt to an unstable environment.Which of the following is a plausible explanation as to why?

Scenario - Javier Gomez Javier is a veteran manager with Pixel International,Inc.(PII) .Recently PII purchased a small business in the printing industry.Javier has been assigned the task of managing this new acquisition and is currently deciding how best to design its structure.Currently,employees are assigned to one of three departments,including sales,production,and legal defense. -The analysis of whether the new division should be centralized or decentralized should include all of the following EXCEPT

The pure functional structure is appropriate for achieving internal efficiency goals.

An advantage of functional structures is the

Organizing defines what to do while strategy defines how to do it.

List the five approaches to departmentalization.

Which of the following is a contemporary approach to structural design in departmentalization?

____________________ means that people in management positions have formal authority to direct and control immediate subordinates.

A(n)____________________ structure is most appropriate when the external environment is stable.

Carly's Clothes,Inc.manufactures children's clothes.Which of the following departments for Carly's Clothes can be considered a line department?

In the ____________________ approach of structural design,departments are independent,contracting services to the central hub for a profit.

Staff departments perform tasks that reflect the organization's primary goal and mission.

The pure functional structure does not enable the organization to be

The matrix structure violates which of the following principles of management?

In the ____ approach,a manufacturing company uses outside suppliers to provide entire chunks of a product,which are then assembled into a final product by a handful of workers.

Because the chain of command converges at the top,the functional structure provides a way to decentralize decision making and provide unified direction from all managers.

Innovative Creations Corporation is designed along functional lines.New product development is very slow and the process is plagued by many problems.One of the problems is that the people in marketing never communicate with the people in production.This is an example of poor

A(n)____________________ structure has an overall narrow span and more hierarchical levels.