•Activities that a company considers central and vital to its business.
Core Competencies
•A team in which members are responsible for an entire process or operation.
Self-Managed Team
•Specialization in our responsibility for some portion of an organizations overall work tasks; also called division of labor.
Work Specialization
•A pathway for the flow of authority from one management level to the next.
Chain of Command
•A framework that enables managers to divide responsibilities, ensure employee accountability, and distribute decision-making authority.
Organization Structure
•A team of people from several departments who are temporarily bought together to address a specific issue.
Task Force
•A team that’s meets to find ways of improving quality, efficiency, and the work environment.
Problem-Solving Team
•Grouping workers according to their similar skills, resource use, and expertise.
Functional Structure
•The number of people under one manager’s control; also known as span of control.
Span of management
•A company whose structure, policies, and capabilities allow employees to respond quickly to customer needs and changes in the business environment.
Agile Organization
•A team that may become a permanent part of the organization and is designed to deal with regularly recurring tasks.
Committee
•A team whose members come from a single functional department and that is based on the organization’s vertical structure.
Functional Team
•Grouping departments according to similarities in product, process, customer, or geography.
Divisional Structure
•Concentration of decision-making authority at the top of an organization.
Centralization
•A chain-of-command system that establishes a clear chain of authority flowing from the top down.
Line Organization
•A measure of how committed team members are to their team’s goals.
Cohesiveness
•A team that draw together employees from different functional areas.
Cross-Functional Team
•A structure in which employees are assigned to both a functional group and project team.
Matrix Structures
•Delegation of decision-making authority to employees in lower-level positions.
Decentralization
•An organization that doesn’t have a conventional structure but instead assembles talent as needed from the open market.
Unstructured Organization
•Uniformity of thought that occurs when peer pressures cause individual team members to withhold contrary or unpopular opinions.
Groupthink
•A team that uses communication technology to bring together geographically distant employees to achieve goals.
Virtual Team
•A structure in which individual companies are connected electronically to perform selected tasks for a small headquarters organization.
Network Structure
•Grouping people within an organization according to function, division, matrix, or network.
Departmentalization
•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