1. Put a mark( ) or () to the following sentences give a comment in each one :

1. Organization is any group working together to achieve common goals and doesnt must have an ongoing purpose (False)
2. An organization is a collection of people working together in a coordinated and structured fashion to achieve one or more goals. (True )
3. Organizational challenge design structure & systems that permit specialization and facilitate coordination by grouping individuals & dis-linking groups with systems of communication, decision making, & control ( )
4. Organizational challenge design structure & systems that permit specialization and deploy incentives to align individual & firm goals ( )
5. In general the design of an organisation refers to the arrangement of roles, for example, who does what, and how these roles are co-ordinated. ( )
6. We can define an organisation as the regular patterned nature of organisational activities and processes. The term organisational structure does not refer to physical things but to social relationships among members of an organisation. ( )
7. Centralisation refers to the location of decision-making authority in the hierarchy of the organisation. It refers to the degree to which top management delegates authority to make decisions.
8. The general environment includes sectors with which the organization interacts directly and that have a direct impact on the organizations ability to achieve its goals
9. The growing importance of the international sector means that the environment for all organizations is becoming extremely complex and extremely competitive
10. The task environment includes those sectors that might not have a direct impact on the daily operations of a firm but will indirectly influence it
11. Companies may achieve competitive advantage in many ways, including:Costs, quality, delivery,flexibility .
12. Degree of complexity: An environment is typically classified as stable or dynamic.
13. There are two dimensions of environmental uncertainty .
14. Rate of change: the number of different factors in the environment. An environment is typically classified as relatively simple or complex
15. An organization is a collection of coordinated group of people working together in a coordinated and structured fashion to achieve one or more goals.
16. Organizational structurethe process of finding the most suitable way of allocating roles in an organisation (creating an ideal structure for an organisation) .
17. Some of the functions Of The Organizational Design And Structure are Designation of formal reporting relationships- for example who is answerable to whom and Grouping individuals together into sections or departments.
18. Organisational designit is a framework/way in which parts of an organization are arranged. It is a skeleton.
19. Formalisationis the extent to which an organisation relies on written rules and procedures to determine the actions of employees , It is a control mechanism. E.g. bureaucracy is a highly formalised organisation.
20. The differentiation The process of deciding how to divide the work in an organization , it has three dimensions Goal orientation , Time orientation and Interpersonal orientation