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1. How can technology increase organizational effectiveness?
2. How does small-batch technology differ from mass-production technology?
3. Why is technical complexity greatest with continuous-process technology? How does technical complexity affect organizational structure?
4. What makes some tasks more complex than others? Give an example of an organization that uses each of the four types of technology identified by Perrow.
5. What level of task interdependence is associated with the activities of (a) a large accounting firm, (b) a fast-food restaurant, and (c) a biotechnology company? What different kinds of structure are you likely to find in these organizations? Why
6. Find an organization in your city and analyze how its technology works using the concepts discussed in this chapter: technical complexity, nonroutine tasks, and task interdependence.
7. Discuss how AMT and innovations in materials technology and in knowledge technology have increased task interdependence and the technical complexity of the work process. How have these innovations changed the structure of organizations operating a mass-production technology?