Define and explain Contingency

MGT 550 Week 1 Quiz 1

Contingency means that:

_____ refers to the amount of resources used to achieve an organization’s goals.

_____ complexity is the degree to which an organization’s departments and personnel are dispersed geographically.

Which of the following contingency factors will influence whether an organization is more effective with a primarily organic design?

A _____ is a narrowly defined piece of work assigned to a person.

Organization design:

A _____ has discretion and responsibility, allowing a person to use his or her judgment and ability to achieve an outcome or meet a goal.

Organizations are social entities that are only linked to the internal environment.

Scientific management focuses primarily on design and functioning of an organization as a whole.

Social media can build stronger, more authentic relationships between managers and employees.

Organization design is directly relevant to top- and middle-management concerns and partly relevant to lower management.

Managers in nonprofits direct most of their activities toward earning money for the company and its owners.

Which of the following is a difference between organization design and organizational behavior?

_____ primarily focus on the design and functioning of an organization as a whole.

_____ pertains to the amount of written documentation in an organization.

The growing global interdependence means that the environment for companies has become less complex and competitive.

Which of the following contingency factors will influence whether an organization is more effective with a primarily mechanistic organization design?

Top management is concerned with major departments, such as marketing or research, and must decide how the department relates to the rest of an organization.

_____ refers to economic development that generates wealth and meets the needs of the current generation while saving the environment so future generations can meet their needs as well.

_____ is the micro approach to organizations because it focuses on the individuals within organizations as the relevant units of analysis.

Which of the following is true of contingency factors?