Part of organization + Mechanism Coordination
Design Parameters + Contingency Factors
Organizational Structures
Philosophies of Managing
Organigraphs
100

When one individual gives specific orders to others to coordinate their work, they are using the mechanism of:

Direct Supervision

100

This environment is linked with Dynamic Structures

Organic Environment

100

A decentralized, bureaucratic organizational structure commonly found in school systems, accounting firms, and craft manufacturing firms that relies heavily on the standardization of skills. 

Professional Bureaucracy

100

The chain of the command is laid over the chain of operations.

Chain Philosophy

100

Visual maps that demonstrate how a place works by depicting critical interactions among people, products, and information are called ________. 

                                   


Organigraphs 

200

The top general managers of an organization and their personal staff are known as this

Strategic apex

200

Parameter for determining the division of labor: concerns the number of tasks and the breadth of each in a given position.

What is Horizontal Job Specialization

200

A highly organic structure common with young or small organizations, with a loose division of labor and little formalization or standardization. Commonly centralized and run under direct supervision.

Simple Structure

200

Managers stay away from the action, watching and comparing - ultimately deciding who gets what resource

Set Philosophy

200

The two conventional components of an organigraph are the ___, or categorized items, such as machines or people, and the _____, which connects that categorized items together to create a linear managerial relationship. 

Set and chain

300

This mechanism of coordination is dependent on individuals communicating informally with one another. 

Mutual adjustment

300

Scheduling new products to be introduced in December is an example of:

Action Planning

300

An organic structure with extensive horizontal job specialization and little differentiation between staff and line managers. Usually functions through experts from various specialties coming together through project teams.

Adhocracy 

300

When an employee - not necessarily in a formal authoritative position - becomes the manager by coordinating the array of services that converge.  

Hub Philosophy

300

Organigraphs are a modern form of this original method of visualizing company management relationships. 

Organizational charts

400

While the standardization of work processes uses guiding rules and regulations for an organization's work, this form of standardization used internalized individual skills and knowledge before the work even begins. 

Standardization of Skills

400

Effective structuring requires a close fit between the contingency factor and design parameter.

Congruence Hypothesis

400

Relies primarily on the standardization of work processes and the technostructure. Formalized, highly specialized, and common with mass production firms. 

Machine Bureaucracy 

400

Managers move around - facilitate collaboration - out in the field; working to energize the network (fluidly)

Web Philosophy

400

The core of knowledge, skills, or resources a company has, as well as its business development ventures, are known as ____________. 

Competencies

500

Accountants, work schedulers, and long-range planners serve as examples of this part of an organization.

Technostructures

500

When informal power flows selectively to the analysts of the technostructure who play major roles in standardizing everyone else's work, while formal power remains at the strategic apex.

 Limited horizontal decentralization

500

Market based structure with limited, parallel vertical decentralization and little coordination amongst its different sectors. Run by one main headquarters that practices standardization of outputs to ensure equal performance through quantitative measures. 

Divisionalized firm

500

These philosophies are examples of a more bureaucratic system

Set + Chain Philosophies

500

Organigraphs can be used to understand company management systems in a way that goes beyond viewing company management as a linear chain of command. This traditional view of company management is known as ________________.

"Top management"