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Which of the following from Miles and Snow's Strategy Typology best matches with strong capability in research, a decentralized structure, and an emphasis on flexibility:
Vertical control is appropriate when the organization has a high need for coordination among functions to achieve innovation and promote learning.
____ refers to what sets the organization apart from others and provides it with a distinctive edge for meeting customer or client needs in the marketplace.
Horizontal grouping means to contract out certain tasks or functions.
Centralized decision making means decision-making authority is pushed down to lower organizational levels.
A hybrid structure is rarely preferred over the pure functional, divisional, horizontal, and virtual network structure.
Integrator roles require excellent people skills.
A horizontal structure is characterized by coordination around geographical areas.
Most companies combine characteristics of multiple structures to take advantage of the strengths and avoid some of the weaknesses.
Horizontal linkages are used to coordinate activities between the top and bottom of an organization and are designed primarily for control of the organization, whereas vertical linkages refer to the amount of communication and coordinate across organizational departments.
Riya is the vice president of marketing for her company. Other officers in the company include the vice presidents of engineering, production, finance, and human resource management. The structure of this small company is likely to be:
A strength of the divisional structure compared to the functional structure is that it tends to decentralize decision making.
наблюдатьHis job is to ______ the entire project from start to finish
составитьThey needed to ______ a new contract before proceeding
A company that wishes to maintain the basic functional structure, but is having difficulty coordinating across departments because of growth:
Which type of structure tends to be used in rapidly changing environments because they offer the organization greater flexibility?
разместитьWe will ______ the new equipment in the main office
привлекатьThe new marketing campaign aims ______ more customers
уложиться в срокWe worked late ______ for the project
____ means the redesign of a vertical organization along its horizontal workflows and processes