Organizational Culture
This is known as a firm's shared values, beliefs, traditions, philosophies, rules, and role models for behavior.
What is Organizational Culture?
This is the division of labor into small, specific tasks, and the assignment of employees to do a single task.
What is Specialization?
Giving employees not only tasks but also the power to make commitments, use resources, and take whatever actions are necessary to carry out those tasks.
What is Delegation of Authority?
The simplest organizational structure, in which direct lines of authority extend from the top manager to the lowest level of the organization.
What is Line Structure?
A permanent, formal group that performs a specific task.
What is a Committee?
A small group whose members have complementary skills; have a common purpose, goals, and approach; and hold themselves mutually accountable.
What is a Team?
Levels of management in an organization and the arrangement or relationship of positions within an organization.
What is Organizational Structure?
The grouping of jobs into working units usually called departments, units, groups, or divisions.
What is Departmentalization?
A structure in which authority is concentrated at the top and very little decision-making authority is delegated to lower levels.
What is a Centralized Organization?
A structure having a traditional line relationship between superiors and subordinates and also specialized managers called - staff managers - who are available to assist line managers.
What is Line-and-Staff Structure?
A temporary group of employees responsible for bringing about a particular change.
What is a Task Force?
Two or more individuals who communicate with one another, share a common identity, and have a common goal.
What is a Group?
A visual display of the organizational structure, lines of authority (chain of command), staff relationships, permanent committee arrangements, and lines of communication.
What is an Organizational Chart?
Four forms of departmentalization.
What is Functional, Product, Geographical, and Customer?
The number of subordinates who report to a particular manager.
What is Span of Management?
A structure that organizes departments into larger groups called divisions.
What is Multidivisional Structure?
A specific type of project team formed to devise, design, and implement a new product.
What are Product Development Teams?
An informal channel of communication, separate from management’s formal, official communication channels.
What is a Grapevine?
To change the basic structure of an organization.
What is Restructure?
1) The grouping of jobs that perform similar functional activities, such as finance, manufacturing, marketing, and human resources. 2)The grouping of jobs according to geographic location, such as state, region, country, or continent.
What is Functional Departmentalization?
What is Geographical Departmentalization?
An organization in which decision-making authority is delegated as far down the chain of command as possible.
What is a Decentralized Organization?
A structure that sets up teams from different departments, thereby creating two or more intersecting lines of authority; also called a project management structure.
What is a Matrix Structure?
Small groups of workers brought together from throughout the organization to solve specific quality, productivity, or service problems.
What are Quality Assurance Teams?
1) Channels of communication defined and designed by the organization. 2) Channels not defined by the organization.
What are 1)Formal & 2) Informal Communication?
The obligation, placed on employees through delegation, to perform assigned tasks satisfactorily and be held accountable for the proper execution of work.
What is Responsibility?
1) The organization of jobs around the products of the firm. 2) The arrangement of jobs around the needs of various types of customers.
What is Product Departmentalization?
What is Customer Departmentalization?
The principle that employees who accept an assignment and the authority to carry it out are answerable to a superior for the outcome.
What is Accountability?
Groups similar to task forces that normally run their operation and have total control over a specific work project.
What are Project Teams?
A group of employees responsible for an entire work process or segment that delivers a product to an internal or external customer.
What are Self-Directed Work Teams?
Face-to-face, emails, phone, written, Zoom, Webex, Teams, Ai.
What are channels for communication?