Management Responsibilities
Managers must ____, or build relationships with colleagues and other stakeholders or businesses.
What is network?
Teams created for a specific project or product creation.
What is a task force?
Communication from lower employees to upper management.
What is upward communication?
A visual display of the organizational structure that includes chain of command
What is an organizational chart?
The number of employees that report to a particular manager.
What is a span of management?
Managers must ___, or provide employees with the ability to take on responsibilities and make decisions in their jobs.
What is employee empowerment?
The division of labor into small, specific tasks
What is specialization?
Communication from upper management to lower employees.
What is downward communication?
Most decision making is done by top management in this structure.
What is a centralized organization?
A firm’s shared values, beliefs, traditions, philosophies, rules, and role models for behavior.
What is Organizational/Corporate Culture?
Managers are responsible for worst-case-scenario planning known as this.
What is contingency planning?
The grouping of jobs into working units such as departments, groups, or divisions
What is departmentalization?
Memos, announcements, and emails would be included in this form of communication.
What is formal communication?
Authority is delegated to lower-level positions in a company in this organizational structure.
What is a decentralized organization?
A temporary group of employees responsible for bringing about a particular change.
What is a task force?
Managers are in charge of hiring workers, ____.
And decreasing the number of workers ___.
What is staffing and downsizing.
The ability to give employees the power to make decisions in order to carry out tasks.
What is delegation of authority?
Gossip and unofficial announcements would be included in this form of communication.
What is informal communication?
This takes place when a company wants to change the basic structure of an organization.
The arrangement of positions within an organization.
What is an organizational structure?
Managers are responsible for ___, or keeping an organization’s activities on course.
What is controlling?
This details direct lines of authority from the top manager to the lowest level employees.
What is a line structure?
An informal channel of communication that includes rumors, unofficial announcements, and gossip.
What is a grapevine?
This structure departmentalizes groups by job responsibilities, often to determine who is working on a project
What is a matrix structure?
A visual display of the organizational structure that includes chain of command.