1. Lithia Motor Co. has gone back to the org design drawing board. They had redesigned their organizational structure, but one of the reading 4 "fit" tests revealed that managers in the service departments may not perceive the benefits of collaborating with the sales department. The "fit" test they used was:
The Specialist Cultures Test
The People Test
The Difficult Links Test
The Accountability Test
2. organizational design decisions are often...
systematic, methodical and well fit for executing today's strategy.
haphazard, political and ill-fit for executing today's strategy.
based on design theory offered by the authors of reading 4.
designed to focus attention on the organization's source of competitive advantage.