Types of Organizational Structure
A traditional organizational structure typified by a well-defined authority hierarchy and strict rules governing work behavior
What is a bureaucracy?
These organizations have formally defined roles for their members, are very rule driven, and are stable and resistant to change
What are traditional organizations?
The use of physical presence and recorded video to analyze a job
what is observation?
The gender-based differences in pay
What is comparable worth?
The organizational structure of West Point is considered to be _____. (centralized, decentralized)
What is centralized?
This structure has two groups: employees how achieve goals, and those who support them
What is a line-staff organizational structure?
If a supervisor has many workers reporting to them, they are said to have a large _____.
What is span of control?
Understanding a job through actively engaging in the task
what is participation?
the imbalance of pay for two similar jobs
what is ?exceptioning
West Point is a ____ organizational structure.
What is traditional?
This non-traditional structure gives workers broadly defined jobs... there is also lots of collaboration and communication between workers.
What is team organization?
A disadvantage of this organizational structure is that workers may become overly focused on their own department and area of specialization, which may breed interdepartmental rivalry and conflict
What is functional structure?
The use of preexisting data to assess a job
what is existing data?
The limitations on women and minorities that inhibit them from advancing into high level positions in an organization
What is glass ceiling?
“Time-management” is an example of _____ needed to be successful as a Cadet. (KSAO)
What is a skill?
A group of people are temporarily assembled to complete construction of an emergency shelter. This group is an example of a _____.
What is a project task force?
This enables decision-making power to rest at the upper levels of the organizational hierarchy.
What is centralization?
Employees record their daily tasks in this
What are job diaries?
Education, physical demands of a job, training and job responsibility are a few examples.
What are compensable factors?
The large number of cadets at West Point causes the organizational structure to have a large ______.
What is span of control?
This bureaucratic characteristic refers to the idea of behavior being based on logical rather than emotional thinking.
What is impersonality?
If a president has multiple project managers reporting to them, and those PMs each have their own departments for production, sales, research, and other functions... the organization is likely following a _____ design.
What is a divisional design?
Open ended, structured or standardized method of gathering firsthand information
What are interviews?
Mandated that men and women receive equal work for equal pay
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
OER’s and NCOER’s are examples of what aspect of job analysis in the Army?
What is job evaluation?