Chapter 5 Case Study Assignment Alcatel-Lucent Chops Away at Years of Failure Questions:

1. What kinds of decisions has chief executive Ben Verwaayen been making at Alcatel-Lucent?

2. To what extent are these decisions subject to risk and uncertainty?

3. To what extent do you think Verwaayen and other top managers have satisficed when making these decisions?

4. How might Verwaayen contribute to organizational learning at Alcatel-Lucent?

Chapter 6 Case Study Assignment Nestle's Recipe for Juggling Volatile Commodity Costs Questions:

1. What kinds of business-level strategy is Nestle pursuing?

2. What kinds of competencies do its CEO and managers possess that allows it to pursue these strategies?

3. In what ways mat its strategies allow it to outperform its rivals such as Kraft and General Mills?

Chapter 7 Case Study Assignment Larry Page's Google 3.0 Questions:

1. How would you describe Google's organizational structure has developed since its founding?

2. What are some of the problems that Google has run into recently as a result of its organizational structure?

3. In what ways do you think Larry Page needs to change Google's structure to make it work more effectively?

Chapter 5 Review Essay Questions Questions:

1. What are the main differences between programmed decision making and nonprogrammed decision making?

2. In what ways do the classical and administrative models of decision making help managers appreciate the complexities of real-world decision making

3. Why do capable managers sometimes make bad decisions? What can individual managers do to improve their decision-making skills?

4. What is organizational learning, and how can managers promote it?

Chapter 6 Review Essay Questions Questions:

1. Describe the three steps of planning. Explain how they are inter-related.

2. What is the relationship among corporate, business, and functional level strategies? How do they create value for an organization?

3. Pick an industry and identify four companies in the industry that pursue one of the four main businesslevel strategies. (e.g., low0cost, focused low-cost, differentiation, etc)?

4. What is the difference between vertical integration and related diversification?

Chapter 7 Review Essay Questions Questions:

1. Using the job characteristics model as a guide, discuss how a manager can enrich or enlarge the jobs of subordinates.

2. How might a salesperson's job or a secretary's job be enlarged or enriched to make it more motivating?

3. When and under what conditions might managers initiate an organizational change from functional to (a) product, (b) a geographic, or (c) a market structure?

4. How do matrix structures and product team structures differ? Why is the product team structure more widely used?

Text book utilized "Essentials of Contemporary Management" 5th edition Author Gareth R,Jones Mc Graw hill

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