The informal organization can help the formal organization to achieve its goals.

An excellent way of putting the informal organization to work for the good of the company is to bring informal leaders into the decision-making process.

An organization that has undergone reengineering has completely redesigned its business structures and processes in order to improve operations.

The primary purpose for any reengineering is to make an organization compliant with changes in its external environment.

The virtual corporation is one way that organizations can transform information technology into a competitive advantage.

The virtual corporation expands the traditional boundaries of an organization.

There is no way to embrace any one of the characteristics of a virtual corporation without embracing them all.

One of the most difficult challenges when merging two global companies is uniting the two company’s organizational culture.

_____ involves coordinating and allocating a firm’s resources so that the firm can carry out its plans and achieve its goals.

One of the primary goals of Burberry, a British retailer, is to expand its market. When the company allocated resources so that it could open two stores in Japan, it was engaged in which management function?

In 2005, BridgePort Brewing Company expanded sales of its BridgePort India Pale Ale, and BridgePort Black Strap Stout into Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. These states will join BridgePort's current distribution markets of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. When the brewery allocated resources to increase its production and distribution, it would have relied on which of the following management functions?

The management activity of organizing.

_____ is the process of dividing the work and assigning tasks to workers.

At your neighborhood Burger King, some employees take and fill orders, others prepare food, a few clean and maintain equipment, and some supervise. This process of dividing work into separate jobs and assigning tasks to workers is called:

_____ is the degree to which tasks are subdivided into smaller jobs.

On an automotive assembly line, Naif Marrot checks to make sure that recently painted car bodies are free of paint bubbles. Other people are assigned the task of seeing that other parts of the car are built to specifications. The task of building an automobile has been subdivided into a series of subtasks. The concepts of _____ have been employed in this situation.

Division of labor refers to:

Specialization refers to the:

_____ is the process of grouping jobs together so that similar or associated tasks and activities can be coordinated.

A supervisor engaged in ______ is grouping people, tasks, and resources into organizational units to facilitate the planning, leading, and control processes.