Business and Legal Structures
A business owned and operated by one person with no liability protection
What is Sole proprietorship
The management function that assigns tasks, allocates resources, and coordinates activities
What is Organizing
This model emphasizes rules, hierarchy, and centralized authority
What is Mechanistic or bureaucratic organization
A diagram that shows positions and reporting relationships
What is an Organizational Chart
Shared values and unspoken attitudes that help or hinder achieving goals
What is Organizational Culture
A corporation type driven by both mission and profit
What is B Corp
The core idea that structure should support the organization’s purpose
Align the organization with its mission
This model emphasizes adaptability, fewer rules, and teams
What is Organic or adaptive organization
Term for the overall system of tasks, reporting relationships, and communication linkages
What is Organizational structure
The idea that informal relationships exist even inside formal hierarchies
What is Informal Organizational networks
The main risk of a sole proprietorship in a lawsuit is that these can be used to pay damages
What is Personal Assets
The concept describing how many people a manager directly supervises
Mintzberg term for board and top leadership
What is Strategic apex
One of the five things an org chart should show: how work is split up
What is Division of work
A newer system where roles are organized into circles and governance is distributed
What is Holacracy
A legally formed business entity that can be structured as C, S, or B types
What is A Corporation
When decision making is concentrated at the top
What is Centralized authority
Mintzberg term for the people doing the day to day work
What is Operational core
A tall structure with many management levels
What is a Hierarchical structure
The three culture levels often used to analyze organizations
What are Artifacts, espoused values, basic underlying assumptions
An organization type often created to pursue mission based work rather than distribute profits to owners
What is A Nonprofit
When decision making is pushed downward and teams are used more
What is Decentralized authority
Mintzberg part that includes functions like payroll, marketing, fundraising, and sales
What is Support staff
A structure described as siloed where coordination mainly happens at upper management
What is Siloed Organization
In the color metaphor, the highly formal, top down pyramid focused on stability
What is Amber