Chapter Review Questions
- Explain how several current environmental forces are affecting and will affect organizations and organizational structures’ effectiveness and efficiency in the near future?
- What are ways to classify and describe how industries and organizations fit and do not fit with their external environments?
- What are a few industries and/or organizations that are fitting well with their current environments? What are a few that are not? Why?
- What are some major differences between organic and mechanistic organizational structures and systems?
- Which organization would you work best in, an organically or mechanistically structured one, and why?
- What are some advantages and disadvantages of functional structures?
- Do you think it’s true that every organization has a hidden functional structure in it? Explain your answer.
- Why have functional structures been criticized for not accommodating new changes in the environment?
- What are some advantages and disadvantages of divisional structures?
- How is a product structure one type of a divisional structure? Explain.
- What are some disadvantages in working in a matrix structure and why?
- What advantages do matrix structures have compared to functional structures?
- What advantages do geographic structures have compared to a functional structure?
- What are issues that working in a networked team structure present?
- In what ways is a virtual organization and structure different from the other ones discussed in the chapter?
- What major trends discussed at the end of this chapter are different from previous external environments and the ways organizations were organized?
- What purposes does an organization’s culture serve when considering the external environment?
- How does Exhibit 4.16 facilitate an understanding of how the internal organization functions with external environments?
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