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BUSA 2150 Final Exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
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BUSA 2150 Final Exam Questions andAnswers (Latest Update 2025)
organizations - Correct Answer ✅ groups of people who
work interdependently toward some purpose
organizational behaviour - Correct Answer ✅ the study of
what people think, feel and do in and around organizations
6 functions of management - Correct Answer ✅ -planning
-organizing
-staffing
-leading
-controlling
-motivating
systems thinking - Correct Answer ✅ -identifying the
moving parts within an organization that add value and
ensuring that these parts function together and effective and
efficient whole
-how each component of an organization functions relative to
the whole is the focal point of the design process
,BUSA 2150 Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2025)
4 categories of organizations - Correct Answer ✅ -
pyramids/hierarchies
-committees/juries
-matrix organizations
-ecologies
Pyramid/hierarchical organization - Correct Answer ✅ -one
leader who is responsible for making all decisions that affect
the organization
-This leader manages other organizational members
committees/juries - Correct Answer ✅ groups of peers who
decide collectively, sometimes by casting votes, on the
appropriate courses of action within the organization
Matrix organizations - Correct Answer ✅ assign workers to
more than one reporting line in an attempt to maximize the
benefit of both functional and decentralized organizational
forms
,BUSA 2150 Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2025)
ecologies - Correct Answer ✅ each business unit
represents an individual profit center that holds employees
accountable for the unit's profitability
Schein's Model of Organizational Culture - Correct Answer
✅ Level 1: Artifacts
Level 2: Values
Level 3: Basic Assumptions
organizational charts - Correct Answer ✅ -illustrate the
structure of an organization, the relationships and relative
ranks of its business units/divisions, and the positions or roles
assigned to each unit/division
-3 categories: hierarchical, matrix and flat/horizontal
departmentalization - Correct Answer ✅ -the basis by
which an organization groups tasks together
-There are 5 common approaches: functional, divisional,
matrix, team and network
, BUSA 2150 Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest Update 2025)
centralization - Correct Answer ✅ -when decision-making
authority is located in the upper organizational levels
-increases consistency in the processes and procedures that
employees use in performing tasks
decentralization - Correct Answer ✅ -when decision-
making authority is located in the lower organizational levels
-important decisions are made by middle-level and
supervisory-level managers, thereby increasing adaptability
-business units operate autonomously and have greater
decision-making power
-dispersed rather than concentrated in a single, central
location or authority
functional structure - Correct Answer ✅ -a common type of
organizational structure in which the organization is divided
into smaller groups based on specialized functional areas,
such as IT, finance or marketing
-coordination, supervision, and task allocation
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