Chapter 05

Instructions

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Question 01

When designing coordination mechanisms into an organization"s structure, which type of task interdependence should be given first priority?

a) Pooled

b) Sequential

c) Reciprocal

d) Pooled, sequential and reciprocal must all be given equal consideration

Question 02

Weick"s idea that knowledge and labor disappear into machines is central to his characterization of new technology as:

a) nonlinear.

b) intensive.

c) atochastic.

d) abstract.

Question 03

Reciprocal tack interdependence occurs among:

a) the workers.

b) a basketball team.

c) the branch offices of a successful bank.

d) the workers, a basketball team and the branch offices of a successful bank.

Question 04

In comparison to products, services are all but which of the following?

a) Intangible

b) Knowledge intensive

c) Labor intensive

d) Capitol intensive

Question 05

Woodward found that successful companies using mass production technology are likely to differ from those that use unit of continuous process technologies in that:

a) their structures will be more organic.

b) their structures will be more mechanistic.

c) their technologies are more complex.

d) none of the above.

Question 06

In Woodward's study, which of the following types of work were in the middle range of her routineness of work scale?

a) Artists

b) Assembly workers

c) Design engineers

d) Technicians

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