Organizational Environment
In this envionrment resources are readily available and uncertainty is low
What is a FORMAL STRUCTURE
The strategy that Walmart has implemented throughout their company
What is LOW COST STRATEGY
The process by which managers decide how to divide tasks into specific jobs
What is JOB DESIGN
An organizational structure in which each region of a country or area of the world is served by a self-contained division
What is GEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE
What is a CROSS FUNCTIONAL TEAM
A formal system of task and reporting relationships that coordinates and motivates organizational goals
What is ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
Pfizer uses this type of technology that requires incrased task variety and task analyzability
What is COMPLICATED TECHNOLOGY
The degree to which a worker feels their job is meaningful because of its effect on others
What is TASK SIGNIFICANCE
What is MARKET STRUCTURE (aka customer structure)
In this type of organization, employees have to go through many different levels of authority to make decisions
What is a TALL ORGANIZATION
This environment requires speed decision making and decentralizes authority
What is a FLEXIBLE STRUCTURE
This strategy usually succeeds best in a flexible structure
What is DIFFERENTIATION STRATEGY
Managers who enlarge and enrich jobs create...
What is a FLEXIBLE STRUCTURE
This structure allows division managers to become experts in their industry and frees corporate managers from the need to directly supervise day to day operations
What is PRODUCT STRUCTURE
A type of manager who can hire, fire, and spend money
What is a LINE MANAGER
The process by which managers made specific organizing choices that result in a particular kind of organizational structure
What is ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
This strategy works best in a formal structure with low task variety and high task analyzability
What is ROUTINE TECHNOLOGY
This design increases the degree of responsibility a worker has over their job
Employees within this structure are often conflicted as to which boss has more authority over them
What is MATRIX STRUCTURE
This strategy gives lower level management and non-managerial employees the autonomy to make decisions
What is DECENTRALIZING AUTHORITY
These 4 tools determine the design of organizational structure
What is ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENT, TECHNOLOGY, STRATEGY, AND HUMAN RESOURCES
An organization that has lots of new or unexpected problems they encounters when performing tasks or jobs
What is HIGH TASK VARIETY
Determines how employees react to their work and lead to outcomes such as high performance and satisfaction and low absenteeism and turnover
What is the JR HACKMAN & GR OLDHAM JOB CHARACTERISTICS MODEL
An organizational structure in which employees are permanently assigned to a cross-functional team and report only to the product team manager
What is a PRODUCT TEAM STRUCTURE
Employees who are a part of this type of organization are linked by computers, videoconferencing, cloud computing exclusively
What is a BOUNDARYLESS ORGANIZATION