You Are Interested in Explaining the Different Types of Organizational

question 87

Multiple Choice

You are interested in explaining the different types of organizational designs to students of basic management. These students need to know the advantages and disadvantages of each structure as well as the structure's characteristics.
-You explain to your students the structure of a local grocery store situated in your neighborhood. The store employs two full-time employees, a salesperson and a cashier. The owner of the store acts as its manager and makes all the decisions. Which of the following organizational structures is being described by you?

• A) bureaucracy
• B) matrix structure
• C) virtual structure
• D) simple structure
• E) boundaryless structure

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Definitions:

Utilization Factor

A measure of how much of a system's capacity is being used compared to its total capacity.

Average Queue Length

The average number of items or people waiting in line to be processed or served over a specific period.

Negative Exponential

A statistical distribution used to model time between independent events that occur continuously at a constant average rate.

Service Times

The duration a customer has to wait before receiving a service or the time taken to deliver a service.