Fundamentals
Used to diagram the division of labor
What is an organization chart?
What is Authority?
Subdividing into smaller sub units.
What is Departmentalization?
A combined organization where supervisors report to two different types of managers.
What is a matrix?
Formed with the purpose of joint pursuit of goals.
What is a Strategic Alliance?
Specialization.
What is the way in which different people are organized to perform specific tasks?
This describes the number of subordinates who report directly to an executive or supervisor.
What is Span of Control?
Revolves around specialized activities such as production or marketing.
What is Functional Organization?
A characteristic of a Matrix organization that helps to process large amounts of information.
What is Extensive Communication networks?
A capability that comprises of knowledge, skills, expertise.
What is a Core Capability?
Organic structure
This is less rigid and emphasizes flexibility?
This is used to assign responsibilities or tasks to subordinates.
What is Delegation?
These departments deal directly with the organization's primary goods & services?
What are Line Departments?
Can be assembled and reassembled to adapt as needed.
What is a Modular Network?
This organization is skilled at acquiring, creating, and transferring knowledge.
What is a Learning Organization?
What is mechanistic?
Advantages of delegation?
What are LEVERAGE, CONSERVES, DEVELOPS, PROMOTES?
Under this set up, people with similar skills are grouped.
What are Economies of Scale (in Functional Organization)?
Involves feedback and discussions to joint figure out how to approach problems.
What is Coordination by Mutual Adjustment?
What is Total Quality Management?
This type of organization structure can be used to describe CCTS.
What is mechanistic?
High-level executives make most decisions to pass down for implementation.
This type of organization increases customer focus.
What is Divisional?
Serves several boundary roles.
A is a Broker?
What is ISO 9001?