Terms
Team
Miscellaneous
Management
Organizations
100

•Activities that a company considers central and vital to its business.

Core Competencies 

100

•A team in which members are responsible for an entire process or operation.

Self-Managed Team

100

•Specialization in our responsibility for some portion of an organizations overall work tasks; also called division of labor.

Work Specialization 

100

•A pathway for the flow of authority from one management level to the next.

Chain of Command

100

•A framework that enables managers to divide responsibilities, ensure employee accountability, and distribute decision-making authority.

Organization Structure

200

•A team of people from several departments who are temporarily bought together to address a specific issue.

Task Force

200

•A team that’s meets to find ways of improving quality, efficiency, and the work environment.

Problem-Solving Team

200

•Grouping workers according to their similar skills, resource use, and expertise.

Functional Structure

200

•The number of people under one manager’s control; also known as span of control.

Span of management

200

•A company whose structure, policies, and capabilities allow employees to respond quickly to customer needs and changes in the business environment.

Agile Organization

300

•A team that may become a permanent part of the organization and is designed to deal with regularly recurring tasks.

Committee

300

•A team whose members come from a single functional department and that is based on the organization’s vertical structure.

Functional Team

300

•Grouping departments according to similarities in product, process, customer, or geography.

Divisional Structure 

300

•Concentration of decision-making authority at the top of an organization.

Centralization

300

•A chain-of-command system that establishes a clear chain of authority flowing from the top down.

Line Organization

400

•A measure of how committed team members are to their team’s goals.

Cohesiveness

400

•A team that draw together employees from different functional areas.

Cross-Functional Team

400

•A structure in which employees are assigned to both a functional group and project team.

Matrix Structures 

400

•Delegation of decision-making authority to employees in lower-level positions.

Decentralization

400

•An organization that doesn’t have a conventional structure but instead assembles talent as needed from the open market.

Unstructured Organization 

500

•Uniformity of thought that occurs when peer pressures cause individual team members to withhold contrary or unpopular opinions.

Groupthink

500

•A team that uses communication technology to bring together geographically distant employees to achieve goals.

Virtual Team

500

•A structure in which individual companies are connected electronically to perform selected tasks for a small headquarters organization.

Network Structure

500

•Grouping people within an organization according to function, division, matrix, or network.

Departmentalization 

500

•An organization system that has a clear chain of command but that also includes functional groups of people who provide advice and specialized services.

Line-and-Staff Organization 

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