Understand how their behaviors support the organizations strategy.

1. In Learning from Experience: “Lowe’s Companies, Inc.,” the organization plans to open many stores in both rural and urban markets.

ANS: T Environmental Influence

2. In Learning from Experience: “Lowe’s Companies, Inc.,” the organization generates revenues of more than $48 billion.

ANS: T  Environmental Influence 

 

 3. Selecting a structure for tasks, responsibilities, and authority relationships within organizations is referred to as environmental factors.

ANS: F

Selecting a structure for tasks, responsibilities, and authority relationships within organizations is referred to as organization design.

Strategy

4. Decisions about task delegating often involve the diagnosis of an organization's culture, power and political behaviors, and jobs design.

ANS: F

Decisions about organization design often involve the diagnosis of an organization's culture, power and political behaviors, and jobs design.

 Strategy

5. The design for a successful organization is for people to work together and understand how their behaviors support the organizations strategy.

ANS: T | Strategy
6. The term division often identifies a specialized function within an organization, such as human resources, production, accounting, and purchasing.

ANS: F

The term department often identifies a specialized function within an organization, such as human resources, production, accounting, and purchasing.

 Analytic | Strategy