2025 COMPLETE MGT 350 ACTUAL EXAM 2
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Why people resist change - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Self-interest
Uncertainty
Lack of understanding and trust
Different assessments and goals
Why do managers make bad decisions? - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Being
influenced by initial impressions. Justifying past decisions. Seeing what
you want to see. Perpetuating the status quo. Being influenced by
problem framing. Overconfidence.
Three types of current problems that organizational managers face -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Mergers/acquisitions
Organizational decline/revitalization
,Conflict management
Mergers/acquisitions - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > The disappointing financial
results of many mergers and acquisitions are caused by the failure of
executives to determine whether the administrative style and
corporate culture of the two companies fit. Executives may concentrate
on potential synergies in technology, products, marketing, and control
systems but fail to recognize that two firms may have widely different
values, beliefs, and practices. These differences create stress and
anxiety for employees, and these negative emotions affect future
performance. Cultural differences should be evaluated during the
acquisition process, and OD experts can be used to smooth the
integration of two firms.
Line departments - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > perform primary business tasks:
sales and production.
Staff Departments - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > support line departments:
marketing, labor relations, research, accounting, HR
,Line authority - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > means that people in management
positions have formal authority to direct and control immediate
subordinates.
Staff authority - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > is narrower and includes the right
advise, recommend, counsel in the staff specialists' area of expertise.
Chain of command - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > unbroken line of authority that
links all ind. in the organization and specifies who reports to whom.
Line and staff: - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > line is direst hands on manafacturing,
staff supportive role of the line position.
Tall organization - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > structure has more levels and
narrow span
Flat organization - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > structure has wide span and fewer
levels
, Span of management - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > number of employees reporting
to a supervisor
Reengineering - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > radical redesign of business process to
achieve dramatic improvements in cost, quality, service and speed.
Mechanistic - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > narrow span of control, high
formalization, high centralization (hierarchy)
Organic - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > flexible and value external knowledge, equal
levels, no job description,
Pure functional structure ****** - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Its theme is housing
the project within a functional division. The matrix project attempts to
blend properties of functional and pure project structure.
Work specialization - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > is the degree to which
organizational tasks are subdivided into individual jibs also called
division of labor.