Organizational Culture and Strategic Control and Reward Systems
100
This is the part of strategic management process that concerns the organization, coordination, and integration of how work gets done.
What is Strategic Implementation?
100
The key building blocks for this are specialization, formalization, centralization, and hierarchy.
What is Organizational Structure?
100
This type of organization has a low level of specialization and formalization, a flat organizational structure, and decentralized decision making.
What are organic organizations?
100
In this organizational structure the founder tends to make all the important strategic decisions as well as run the day-to-day operations.
What is a simple structure?
100
This is the collectively shared values and norms of an organizations members.
What is organizational culture?
200
These three key levers are what managers have at their disposal when designing their organizations for competitive advantage.
What is Structure, Culture, and Control?
200
These kinds of companies tend to have high degrees of specialization.
What are Fortune 100 Companies?
200
In these, geographically dispersed members are able to use technology to collaborate on projects.
What are virtual teams?
200
In this organizational structure, a firm has increased sales, they group employees into distinct functional areas based on domain expertise.
What is a functional structure?
200
This is when company founders define and shape an organization culture, which can persist for many decades after their departure.
What is founder imprinting?
300
This is the process of creating, implementing, monitoring, and modifying the structure, process, and procedures of an organization.
What is Organizational Design?
300
These are characterized by detailed written rules and policies of what to do in a specific situation.
What are Formalized Structures?
300
This organizational form is characterized by a high degree of specialization and formalization, and a tall hierarchy that relies on centralized decision making.
What are mechanistic organizations?
300
In this organizations structure, there are several distinct separate business units, each with its own profit-and-loss responsibilities. Led by a CEO each SBU operates independently from one another.
What is a multidivisional structure?
300
These are internal-governance mechanisms put into place to align the incentives of principals and agents.
What is a strategic control and reward system?
400
A firm's resistance to changing the status quo.
What is inertia?
400
In this kind of organization, decisions are made and problems are solved by empowered lower-level employees.
What are decentralized organizations?
400
Firms that pursue differentiation strategy at the business level tend to use this organizational form.
What is organic structure.
400
This organizational structure is a mixture between multidivisional and functional structure.
What is a matrix structure?
400
These seek to define and direct employee behavior through a set of explicit and codified rules and standard operating procedures.
What are input controls?
500
This is Zappo's Mission Statement.
What is Delivering Happiness?
500
This determines the formal position-based reporting lines and determines who reports to whom.
What is hierarchy?
500
This structure allows for standardization and economics of scale, and is often pursued by firms with a cost-leadership strategy at the business level.
What is mechanistic structures?
500
This organizational structure is used by firms who wish to pursue a transnational strategy, in which the firm combines the benefits of a localization strategy with those of a global standardization strategy.
What is a global matrix structure?
500
These seek to guide employee's behavior by defining expected results, but leave the means to those results open to individual employees, groups, or SBUs.