Match the Following: -Organizational Downsizing

question 110

Multiple Choice

Match the following:
-organizational downsizing

• A)size, technology, and environment
• B)competitors, regulators, legislators
• C)typical of small or new organizations
• D)interacts with its environment
• E)the two layers of the environment
• F)specialized, formalized, centralized
• G)abandon classical view of organization
• H)links task and social subsystems
• I)lacks centralization, but stable
• J)interpersonal relationships
• K)plans and actions to achieve goals
• L)everything outside an organization
• M)a popular trend to reduce staff
• N)start redesign from scratch
• O)used in sociotechnical systems approach
• P)several ways to achieve efficiency
• Q)temporary alliance to achieve a goal
• R)little formalization
• S)Combines two different designs
• T)the greatest influence on structure

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