Chapter 5-6 Homework Man2021

Jennifer Diaz
MAN 2021
MWF 9:00am-9:50am
Prof. Litchman Beco
Chapter 5 Homework
5-1 Formal planning is defining specific goals covering a specific time
period, writing down these goals and making them available to
organization members, and using these goals to develop specific plans
that clearly define the path of the organization. Informal planning very
little, if anything is written down. The planning is general and lacks
continuity.
5-2 Planning is beneficial for four reasons. First planning establishes
coordinated effort. Second, planning reduces uncertainty by forcing
managers to look ahead. Third, planning reduces overlapping and
wasteful activities. Finally planning establishes the goals or standards
that facilitate control.
5-3 The six-step strategic management process.
Step 1: Identifying the organizations current mission, goals, and
strategies. Every organization needs a mission. Defining the mission
forces managers to identify what its in business to do.
Step 2: Doing an external analysis. Managers do an external analysis
so they know, for instance, what the competition is doing, what
pending legislation might affect the organization, or what the labor
supply is like in locations where it operates.
Step 3: Doing an internal analysis. It provides important information
about organizations specific resources, and capabilities. With that,
managers should be able to identify organizational strengths and
weaknesses.
Step 4: Formulating Strategies. Managers design strategies that will
help an organization achieve its goals.
Step 5: Implementing strategies. Once strategies are formulated, they
must be implemented.
Step 6: Evaluating results. Questions like how effective have the
strategies been at helping the organization reach its goals? What
adjustments are necessary? And so on.
5-4 A SWOT analysis is organizations strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats. Its important to managers because it gets
them ready to formulate appropriate strategies.
5-5 Organizations that fail to plan are planning to fail. Is something
that I dont agree with. It never fails to happen to me that when I plan
something it doesnt go the way I planned. I think its best to go with

the flow because sometimes focusing too much on the planning and
not enough on the doing it can stop you from seeing the big picture of
what needs to be done.
5-6 In the circumstances that I think MBO would be most useful is
probably when you have a high position available and youre trying to
see what employee to offer it to. Because sometimes someone might
give you the sales you want but doesnt have the patience for tough
situations and that position requires a lot of interacting with customers.
5-7 The primary means of sustaining a competitive advantage is to
adjust faster to the environment than your competitors do. Yes I do
agree with this statement because in my opinion environment is
everything. If youre not comfortable in a certain place you wont act
like your regular self. Youll do things the wrong way but youre too
focused on how uncomfortable you feel. So being able to feel in place
in an environment will not only bring your best out but also have you
focus on your goal.
5-8 The type of strategic planning I do in my personal life is planning
what days to do all my homework and studying to get that A in the
class. Some short-term plans that I do in my personal life is to finish
my AA by next year already so I can move on to my bachelors. A
directional goal in my personal life would be to get married and be
successful. A standing-plan in my personal life would be picking classes
at FIU for the spring semester and using my specialized class plan.
5-9 I am good at math and not so good at English and writing. I love
running all over the place and being busy. I hate being in front of a
computer doing nothing but sitting all day.
1st year Get a job at a bank
2nd year Gain experience at the bank
3rd year Earn My Bachelors Degree
4th year Move up in the industry
5th year go to another business and put in more years.
5-10 The concept of competitive advantage is as important for notfor-profit organizations as it is for-profit organizations. Yes I do agree
with this statement because not-for-profit goes through the same
things as for-profit. For example united way wants more donations
made through as than Red Cross. Why? It wants to be a better donator
and help more lives. If theyre a better company, more donations! Just
like forever 21 and agaci, theyll have the same shoes but people will
go to forever 21 because its the trend and everyone says its a better
brand. More money and business for forever 21!
Chapter 6 Homework
6-1 Organization design is when managers develop or change the
organizations structure.
6-2 The traditional view of work specialization is when a company
needs to meet daily output goals, the workers specialize in job tasks
such as molding, stitching, and sewing and lacing and so forth. In
todays view most managers today see work specialization as an
important organizing mechanism because it helps employees be more
efficient.
The traditional view of departmentalization is when early management
writers argued that after deciding what job tasks will be done by
whom, common work activities needed to be grouped back together so
work was done in a coordinated and an integrated way. Todays view of
departmentalization many organizations use cross-functional teams,
which are teams made up of individuals from various departments and
that cross traditional departmental lines.
The traditional view of authority and responsibility is that you had to
be familiar with chain of command, the line of authority extending from
upper organizational levels to lower levels, which clarifies who reports
to whom. Todays view of authority is that you dont have to be a
manager to have power and that power is not perfectly correlated with
ones level in the organization.
The traditional view of span of control is the big questions How many
employees can a manager efficiently and effectively supervise? Most
favored small pans. In todays view many organizations are increasing
their span of control and is increasingly being determined by looking at
contingency variables.
The traditional view of centralization is the degree to which decision
making takes place at upper level of organizations. Decentralization is
the degree to which lower lower-level managers provide input or
actually make decisions. In todays view, managers often choose the
amount of centralization or decentralization that will allow them to best
implement their decisions and achieve organizational goals.
The traditional view of formalization refers to how standardized an
organizations jobs are and the extent to which employee behavior is
guided by rules and procedures. In todays view many organizations
rely less on strict rules and standardization to guide and regulate
employee behavior.
6-3 An organizations structure can be changed quickly because you
might have a new CEO that doesnt think the way things are arent
working and might change it around and fast. Yes I do think companies
should be changed quickly because yes being in a steady environment

is comfy but changing things up could get the company where it wants
to be.
6-4 An organization can have no structure Yes I do agree with this
statement because each company is different. Not every company can
have a structure maybe they are just better off and the other company
does because they feel like they need it to run things around.
6-5 Mechanistic organization is rigid and a tightly controlled structure.
An organic organization is highly adaptive and flexible structure.
6-6 Contingency factors that affect organizational design would be a
contingent workforce. Where they can just witch on and off as needed.
Along with contingent workers that are only temporary, freelance, or
contract workers whose employment is contingent upon demand for
their services.
6-7 Yes organizing is still an important managerial function because
you still have to everything in place. Such as what employee will do
this today or which one to call if an accident were to occur. They need
to organize their goals because even if youre working at home you still
have to prioritize and balance what your goals are.
6-8 Simplifying work tasks shouldnt have negative results for the
company because if you have less work you should do the little work
you have effectively and efficiently. If its giving the company and
employees negative results than they are probably taking out whats
important in the work and leaving whats unnecessary.
6-9 The boundaryless organization has the potential to create a major
shift in the way we work. Yes I agree with this statement because
youre working in an organization that is not defined by, or limited to
the horizontal, vertical, or external boundaries imposed by pre defined
structure. It is found to be that many of todays successful
organizations are boundaryless.
6-10
Miami Dade College Kendall
Campus
The school I belong to.
Professor Litchman Beco
My professor
Teaches Business classes and a
plan to build successful students.
President
Eduardo Padron
The President of the school
The student
Jennifer Diaz
Go to class and learn and get an
A.

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something it doesnt go the way I planned. I think its best to go with

should be changed quickly because yes being in a steady environment

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