Reference no: EM13990415

1. A company's informal structure is represented primarily by the organizational chart.

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False

2. Division of labor is the assignment of various portions of a particular task among a number of organization members.

True

False

3. Perhaps the best-known contributor to span of management literature was made by Graicunas.

True

False

4. Unity of command is the management principle that states there should be only one president or CEO for an organization.

True

False

5. What was Graicunas' main contribution to the fundamentals of organizing?

his consideration of number of subordinates, potential relationships, and actual relationships

he pointed out that span of management is an important and far-reaching consideration for the organization

his formula describing the relationship between number of subordinates and potential relationships

he pointed out the relationship between number of subordinates, actual relationships, potential relationships, and outside relationships

none of the above

6. The central concern of span of management is to:

improve employee effectiveness

improve profit

downsize employees to save money

determine how many individuals a manager can supervise effectively

design jobs to be efficient

7. One of Henri Fayol's guidelines for organizing resources is to avoid red tape, regulations, and paperwork.

True

False

8. If a publisher has college, high school, and elementary school markets for its products, customer departmentalization would most likely be effective.

True

False

9. The essence of division of labor is:

that individuals do the entire task

teamwork

coordination

span of management

that individuals specialize in doing part of a task rather than the entire task

10. After a manager has divided major tasks into subtasks, the next step is to allocate resources for those subtasks.

True

False