Lingo
Power that has been legitimized by the organization
What is Authority
This alternatives to Specialization involves systematically moving employees from one job to another
What is Job rotation
This is the process by which a manager assigns a portion of his or her total workload to others.
What is Delegation
This is the conversion processes used to transform inputs into outputs
What is technology
This design allows the organization to staff all-important positions with functional experts, and it facilitates coordination and integration. However, it promotes a functional, rather than an organizational focus, and tends to promote centralization
What is Functional Design
The process of systematically retaining power and authority in the hands of higher-level managers
What is Centralization
This alternative to specialization increases the number of tasks that employees perform
What is Job enlargement
This suggests that each person within an organization must have a clear reporting relationship to one and only one boss. It is one of two components of the chain of command.
What is Unity of command
The product is manufactured in assembly-line fashion by combining component parts into another part or finished product in this basic form of technology.
What is Large-batch or mass-production technology
This design is based on multiple businesses in related areas operating within a larger organizational framework.
What is divisional design, M-form or multidivisional design
Degree to which the various subunits must work together in a coordinated fashion
What is Integration
This alternative to job specialization suggests that jobs should be diagnosed and improved along five core dimensions, taking into account both the work system and employee preferences.
What is the job characteristics approach
Max Weber, an influential German sociologist, was a pioneer in the study of organization design. At the core of Weber’s writings was this model of design...government being the best example
What is Bureaucracy
Transformation of raw materials to finished goods is done by a series of machine or process transformations in this form of basic technology
What is Continuous-process technology
This design is based on two overlapping bases of departmentalization. Jobs are grouped according to function, and then a set of product groups are superimposed across the functional groups. Thus, a multiple-command structure results, in which any given individual reports both to a functional superior and to one or more project managers.
What is Matrix
The process of grouping jobs according to some logical arrangement.
What is Departmentalization
this can involve continually assigning new and challenging tasks, thereby increasing employees’ opportunity for growth and advancement.
What is Job enrichment
Although, a crucial factor in structuring organizations, there are no universal, cut-and-dried prescriptions for an ideal or optimal span for this
What is span of management/control
The product is custom-made to customer specifications or produced in small quantities in this basic form of technology
What is Unit or small-batch technology
This Design is based on two overlapping bases of departmentalization. Jobs are grouped according to function, and then a set of product groups are superimposed across the functional groups.
What is Matrix
An approach to organization design that relies almost exclusively on project-type teams, with little or no underlying hierarchy
What is Team organization
The four benefits of specialization are proficiency of task, lower training costs, specialization of equipment and this 4th benefit decreasing.
What is Transfer time between tasks
Tom Burns and G. M. Stalker found that organizations in stable environments tended to have a different kind of design than organizations in unstable environments. This structure works best in stable environments.
What is mechanistic organization
Technology processes vary in complexity. Which is presumed to be the simplest of the two extremes
What is small-batch
The basic shortcoming of this design is the complexity associated with holding diverse and unrelated businesses. Managers usually find comparing and integrating activities across a large number of diverse operations difficult.
What is Conglomerate, H form or Unrelated Business