MGMT 4860 ch 7 quiz

An organization's ____ in the work process that is directly related to the organization's mission.
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An organization's ____ in the work process that is directly related to the organization's mission.
Core technology
Core technology is a department work process that is important to an organization bus is not directly related to its primary mission.
False
Failing to adapt appropriate new technologies to support strategy, or adopting a new technology and failing to realign strategy to match it, can lead to poor performance.
True
The goal of the sociotechnical systems approach is to design an organization for:
joint optimization
Which of the following is not true regarding mass production and a smart factory?
the span of control in mass production is narrow, while the span of control in the smart factory is wide.
A smart factory has a stable customer demand, whereas mass production has a changing company demand.
False
In football, the interdependence tends to be:
sequential because plays are run sequentially and events during the plays occurs sequentially.
____ is a manufacturing process characterized by long production runs of standardized parts, and output often goes into inventory from which orders are filled because customers do not have special needs.
Large-batch production
Teaching in a high school and medical services in a health clinic are referred to as an organization's ______ technology.
Core
Vintichic, a fashion house, plans to launch its new collection for summer. Each department has a part to play in producing the final product. The designers send the fabric and designs to the tailors, the tailors send the sewed clothes to the department that accessorize the clothes, the accessorizing department sends the clothes to the packaging and shipping department, and finally the packaging and shipping department transports the clothes to their various outlets throughout the world. In this scenario, the type of interdependence exhibited by the departments of the fashion house is _____.
sequential interdependence
According to Amy Kates, firms can start exploring organization design by drawing out their current organization model and the structures being used.TrueWhich of the following is considered the classic management view?NOT decentralized structure modelAccording to the Linkedin learning video on organization design, organization design is static decision.FalseExamples of how organizations have attempted to achieve kaizen include all of the following except:NOT lean managementThe process of continuous improvement:NOT evolved from attempts to dismantle bureaucracy.