Design and Enterprise Business Organization

Alternative structures such as grouping by output/product or grouping by market are not options as they would result in “duplication of activities and resources, the erosion of deep technical expertise, missed opportunities for synergies and learning” (Ancona, Kochan, Scully, Van Maanen, & Westney, 2009, p. M2-19). The matrix structure provided a potential positive aspect in that it would provide a needed cross-functional linking mechanism by mixing the functional structure with grouping by output/product, but the complexity, cost, dual systems, and dual roles resulting from the matrix structure historically resulted in either the functional or the output/product system becoming more powerful than the other.

*If you go through each item on this study guide and read about it on the REFerenced page and corresponding TOPic in your text, you should have an excellent study guide for the Final Exam. If you do not do this, you will likely fail this exam miserably!

Use the lecture folder to help you complete this guide. The more detail you can provide the better prepared for the test you will be.

1. This is a closed book exam. You may only have pens, pencils and a calculator at

Review the sample syllabus and sample rubric under the questions below. Then, provide answers underneath the following questions:

1. This is a closed book exam. You may only have pens, pencils , a calculator and one cheat sheet double sided on 8 ½ by 11 paper at your desk.

Complete the interactive quizzes in the COS—make sure to write down the ones you miss so that you can focus on specific topics.

After reading the course resources, answer questions 1-10. (10 points each)
Please take time to answer each question completely.

All questions on the examination will come from the lectures (Topics I – X) and the assigned chapters and parts of chapters in the textbook. To help frame the questions for you, they will be organized under the same main headings and subheadings used in the Lecture Notes. The only exceptions will be a few subheadings that pertain to material covered only in the text. Under each heading will be a mix of true-false and multiple-choice questions, and possibly a few analogies, with all answers to be recorded on a scantron sheet. Along with

There are two exams in this course: a midterm and a final. The midterm will cover material from Modules 1–4 and the final will cover material from Modules 5–8. Both exams are closed-book/closed-notes and must be completed 1 hour and 30 minutes of uninterrupted time.

1. The final exam is "open book, open notes." The maximum time you can spend in the exam is 3 hours, 30 minutes. If you have not clicked the Submit For Grade button by then, you will be automatically exited from the exam. In the final exam environment, the Windows clipboard is disabled, and so you will not be able to copy exam questions or answers to or from other applications.

Make sure that all of your answers are in your own words. You will be submitting this document via www.turnitin.com and need to be sure that you are not plagiarizing. If you plagiarize from an online source or another student, you will receive a zero.

You might be tempted to pass over some of the information in this study guide; however, my advice is to go ahead and read it in its entirety. Everything I’ve included is there for a purpose. No matter how unimportant it might seem to you, it could help if you utilize it.

Directions: Use the following questions to help you focus in on what is important to know to answer each of the following chapter objectives. The following terms do not need to be defined as a part of the study guide but you will be better prepared for the exam if you integrate them into your answers below and define (as you go) the ones you know you will forget.

My purpose in writing this book is to give you the knowledge to succeed. I have written it to be as close as I can to the actual test; however, I do not claim that this practice exam is the same as the real test. The questions I’ve included are only examples of the ones that are asked on the actual exam. They are not the actual questions. That would be impossible because the questions