Basic Elements
The process of grouping jobs according to some logical arrangement.
What is Departmentalization
Power has been legitimized by the organization.
What is Authority
Design based on a functional approach to departmentalization.
What is the Functional (U-Form) Design
A situation that occurs when a group or team's desire for consensus and cohesiveness overwhelms its desire to reach the best possible decision.
What is Groupthink
A substantive modification of some part of an organization.
What is Change
An alternative to job specialization that involves systematically moving employees from one job to another.
What is Job Rotation
The number of people who report to a particular manager.
What is Span of Management
The Hilton uses this design to organize all its units.
What is the Multidivisional (M-Form) Design
The process of choosing one alternative from a set of alternatives.
What is Decision-Making
Resources, culture, leadership style, employee morale, company values, and mission statement.
What is an Internal Environment
What is a Work Team
This type of organization is centralized and has many layers.
What is a Tall Organization
Martha Stewart used this design that features two overlapping bases of departmentalization.
What is the Matrix Design
A decision that is relatively structured and recurs with some frequency
What is Programmed
This includes the general and task environment.
What is an External Environment
The degree to which the overall task of the organization is broken down and divided into smaller components.
What is Job Specialization
The process by which a manager assigns a portion of their total workload to others.
What is Delegation
A few companies adopted this design during COVID-19 to help them better cope with the unfolding risks.
What is the Hybrid Design
The tendency to search for alternatives only until one is found that meets some minimum standard of sufficiency.
What is Satisficing
A decision-making model that argues that decision-makers use incomplete and imperfect information, are constrained by bounded rationality and tend to satisfice when making decisions.
What is the Administrative Model
An alternative to job specialization that increases the total number of tasks that workers perform.
What is Job Enlargement
The process of systematically retaining power and authority in the hands of lower-level managers and employees.
What is Decentralization
This emerging design believes in lifelong personal development for all its employees while continually transforming itself to respond to changing demands and needs.
What is the Learning Organization
An informal alliance of individuals or groups formed to achieve a common goal.
What is a Coalition
A prescriptive approach to decision-making that tells managers how they should make decisions; assumes that managers are logical and rational and that their decisions will be in the best interests of the organization.
What is the Classical Decision Model