Chapter 7 Multiple choice questions

. Thinking in terms of an organization's physical structure, layout refers to:

The assignment of people to locations. correct incorrect

The commitment of regions of space to particular activities. correct incorrect

The orientation of buildings to one another on a single site or campus. correct incorrect

The assignment of people to locations, the commitment of regions of space to particular activities, and the orientation of buildings to one another on a single site or campus. correct incorrect

. Which type of office is most conducive for meetings, brief interruptions, confidential conversations, and teamwork?

Private offices correct incorrect

Open offices correct incorrect

Cubicles correct incorrect

Does not matter correct incorrect

. 'Touchdown Jesus', the name given to the mosaic on the campus of Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, is an example of:

An unplanned symbolic interpretation. correct incorrect

Design and décor as aspects of physical structure. correct incorrect

Organizational counterculture. correct incorrect

An unplanned symbolic interpretation, design and décor as aspects of physical structure, and organizational counterculture. correct incorrect

. Your company decides to relocate two of its manufacturing plants to Spain. Which of the categories of its physical structure does this change represent?

Layout correct incorrect

Design correct incorrect

Geography correct incorrect

Task interdependence correct incorrect

. A generative building distinguishes itself from a terminal building in which respect?

Order correct incorrect

Movement correct incorrect

Flexibility correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

. At a company you are studying, you discover people are assigned workspaces on the basis of their current project assignments, so that all members of a project team are located in adjacent cubicles. When their project is finished and/or they are assigned to work with another team, they are moved next to their new teammates. This practice is most closely related to which aspect of an organization's physical structure?

Geography correct incorrect

Layout correct incorrect

Design correct incorrect

Décor correct incorrect

. Automatic behaviors in response to a given symbol are defined as:

Symbolic conditioning correct incorrect

Social constructionism correct incorrect

Social identity correct incorrect

Sensemaking correct incorrect

. The idea that our bodies influence our ways of knowing and understanding is known as:

Epistemology correct incorrect

Enactment theory correct incorrect

Embodiment theory correct incorrect

Evolutionary theory correct incorrect

. The belief that physical structure can communicate meaning and therefore careful design can control meanings associated with it is associated with which perspective?

Postmodern correct incorrect

Symbolic correct incorrect

Modern correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

. Postmodernists view the assembly line's physical structure as:

Dominating correct incorrect

Efficient correct incorrect

Linear correct incorrect

Liberating correct incorrect