Question

Please answer all 4 parts!

A. Patty's Paper, an online stationery and card retailer, adopts an organizational structure in which job titles are abandoned, traditional managers are eliminated, and authority is distributed to teams. Patty, the CEO of the firm, believes that this more fluid structure will allow the company to grow in size and increase its productivity. What is this type of organizational structure called?

• a free-reign firm

• a task force

• a tall organization

• a holacracy

• a broad organization

B. If you were to develop an organizational structure for your company, you would

• outline the company's shared values, beliefs, philosophies, rules, and ways of doing things.

• define the various positions in the company and show how they relate to one another.

• define the company's code of ethics and set rules for ethical behavior.

• delineate the necessary steps in recruiting, hiring, training, and evaluating employees.

• outline the production process and assign tasks to get the product to market.

C. When Music Warehouse, Inc. faced the problem of frequent customer complaints and declining sales, a temporary, cross-functional team was created to look into the matter. At the end of three months, they had to make suggestions and initiate necessary changes within the company to improve brand image and regain customer loyalty. Such a team is referred to as a

• cooperative.

• committee.

• specialized department.

• product-development team.

• task force.

D. Uptown University wants to create its own learning management system, so all its course materials will be available to its students in one place. To set up this new system, the university creates project teams with members from different departments. While working on this project, these team members are responsible to both functional and project managers. What type of structure does this scenario describe?

• line structure

• matrix structure

• multidivisional structure

• line-and-staff structure

• dual structure

Answer 1

a. The organisation in which the traditional organisation structure is abandoned to give way to self managed and autonomous teams is called holacracy.

Option 4 is right.

b. For developing an organisational structure the first step is to idenitfy different positions in the company and find out how they relate to each other.

Option 2 is right.

c. The unit which includes cross functional team members with different competencies and formed for specific purpose of finding out the reason for customer complaints within specified time is a task force.

Option 5 is right.

d. The inclusion of members from different functional areas and a dual reporting structure is an example of matrix structure.

Option 2 is right.