Basic definitions
it is a group of people working together to achieve common goals.
What is an organization?
Determines the way labor is coordinated among different employees
What is a coordination mechanism?
This type of departamentalization would have divisions such as: North, central and south?
What is geographic departamentalization?
Determines the level of participation of low - level employees in decision-making processes.
What is centralization?
Principle that dictates that all employees must have one boss and only one.
what is unity of command?
They force members of an organizations to look ahead and plan for the future. They set the path ahead.
What are organizational goals?
describes the manner in which divided tasks are combined and allocated to work groups. It is a consequence of the division of labor.
What is departamentalization?
This type of departamentalization would have departments such as: marketing, accounting, finances, operations, supply chain?
What is functional departamentalization?
The degree to which rules and procedures shape employees' jobsand activities. The purpose of formalization is to predict and control how employees behave on the job."
What is formalization?
Principle of orgazational strucutre that determines one must ask all things with his boss first, even if you dont agree with him or her.
What is chain of command?
a system of task, reporting, and authority relationships within which the work of the organization is done. It defines the form and function of the organization's activities.
What is organizational structure?
The number of people reporting to a manager. Can be small or large.
What is span of control?
This type of departamentalization would have departments such as: Melting, molding, stamping, paint, touch up, packaging and wharehousing.
What is process departamentalization?
It is an obligation to do something with the expectation that someone will act in certain way to achieve certain output or result.
What is responsibility?
Organic structures tend to have more decentralizaed structures. TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE
It is a diagram showing all people, relationships, and lines of formal communication in the organization.
What is an organizational chart? (organigrama en español)
System of reporting and supervising relations within an organization. defines levels of responsibility and authority
What is administrative hierarchy?
This type of departmentalization would have departments such as: de luxe cars, SUV´s, compact cars and trucks.
What is product or departamentalization?
It is power that has been legitimized within a specific social context." It includes the legitimate right to use resources to accomplish expected outcomes.
What is authority?
Organic structures do not need an organizational chart. TRUE or FALSE
FALSE
The two basic requirements any organizational structure must define and determine.
1. What is division of labor?
2. What is coordination?
Mechanistic organizations tend to have ___________ spans of control, and therefore _________ levels in the hierarchy, than organic ones.
SMALL AND MORE
This type ofdepartamentalization would have departments suchs as: kids wearables, young women wearaboles, mature women wearables and men wearables.
What is customer departamentalization?
Organizational system characterized by a hierarchy of authority and a system of rules and procedures that, iffollowed, would create a maximally effective system for large organizations.
What is Webbers bureocracy?
Webber´s bureocracy can be considered a mechanistic organization. TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE