Assignment

Please study Ch. 8 and answer nine Review Questions on p. 257. The questions are below for your convenience.

1. How do the functions of planning and organizing relate to each other (a) in the initial development of a company, and (b) during the modification of the company's structure?

2. Identify and explain three important benefits of the organizing process.

3. List the five steps in the organizing process. Draft a one-sentence description of each.

4. Identify the four popular approaches to departmentalizing. Specify which approach you would recommend for each of the following organizations and defend your choices:

A) A retail hardware store

B) A company that manufactures and markets one product

C) A company with sales offices in forty states

D) A retail department store

5. Identify and explain the three types of authority.

6. What is power? What are its sources? How does it differ from authority?

7. Explain the importance to managers of each of these organizing concepts or principles:

A) Unity of direction

B) Chain of command

C) Line and staff departments

D) Unity of command

E) Delegation of authority

F) Responsibility

G) Accountability

H) Span of control

I) Centralization/decentralization

8. What does the term informal organization mean? Of what does the informal organization consist?

9. How does the formal organization differ from the informal organization?