Week 5 Quiz

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The focus of a single segmentation within a scope strategy is known as a _______ strategy.
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Niche correct • 2
Which of the following factors is least likely to have an impact on organizational structure?
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Strategy

Size
Incorrect
• 3
Decision making within which one of the following organizational structures follows a strict chain of command?
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Bureaucracy
Correct
• 4
It is easiest for management to deal with resistance when it is
Overt
Correct
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• 5
________ are persons who act as catalysts and assume the responsibility for managing refinement activities.
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Change agents
Correct
• 6
Idea champions display characteristics associated with _________ leadership.
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Transformational

Correct
• 7
Entering into various types of business ventures outside of the realm of an organization’s usual type of business is an example of a ________ strategy. diversification Correct
• 8
Which of the following is an example of an individual source of resistance to change?
Fear of the unknown
Correct
• 9
Which of the following is least likely to lend to a simple organizational structure?
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Formulized rules and regulations

correct
• 10
Confusion in who reports to whom is a weakness of which one of the following organizational structures?
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Matrix correct • 11
The deemphasizing of hierarchical authority and control in organizational development is referred to as
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power equalization
Correct
• 12
Which of the following actions can extinguish risk taking and innovation?
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Rewarding for the absence of failures rather than for the presence of success
Correct
• 13
A(n) ________ organization is an organization that takes on a life of its own, apart from its founders and members, and is valued for itself and not for the goods or services it produces.
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Institutionalized correct • 14
Which of the following statements is true regarding the functions of culture in an organization?
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It