Chapter 9 Assignment Questions

1. What is the "organizational structure"? Why is it important? What questions does it answer?

1. Discuss the following approaches to organizational structure in detail. Give examples of what each might look like.

• Functional departmentalization -

• Product departmentalization -

• Customer departmentalization -

• Geographic departmentalization -

1. What is unity of command? Why is it important to have unity of command in an organizational structure?

1. What is the downside of highly specialized jobs? In answering this question, please also discuss job rotation, job enlargement, and job enrichment and how these strategies help with the downside of highly specialized jobs.

1. What does it mean to empower your employees? What are the benefits of empowering your employees?