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Chapter 7 Multiple choice questions
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Thinking in terms of an organization's physical structure, layout refers to:
The assignment of people to locations.
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The commitment of regions of space to particular activities.
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The orientation of buildings to one another on a single site or campus.
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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.
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Which type of office is most conducive for meetings, brief interruptions, confidential conversations, and teamwork?
Private offices
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Open offices
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Cubicles
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Does not matter
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'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.
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Design and décor as aspects of physical structure.
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Organizational counterculture.
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An unplanned symbolic interpretation, design and décor as aspects of physical structure, and organizational counterculture.
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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
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Design
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Geography
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Task interdependence
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A generative building distinguishes itself from a terminal building in which respect?
Order
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Movement
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Flexibility
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All of the above
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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
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Layout
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Design
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Décor
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Automatic behaviors in response to a given symbol are defined as:
Symbolic conditioning
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Social constructionism
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Social identity
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Sensemaking
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The idea that our bodies influence our ways of knowing and understanding is known as:
Epistemology
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Enactment theory
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Embodiment theory
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Evolutionary theory
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The belief that physical structure can communicate meaning and therefore careful design can control meanings associated with it is associated with which perspective?
Postmodern
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Symbolic
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Modern
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All of the above
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Postmodernists view the assembly line's physical structure as:
Dominating
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Efficient
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Linear
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Liberating
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