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26 Cards in this Set
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Organizing
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arranging and structuring work to accomplish organizational goals
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Organizational Structure
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formal arangemnt of jobs within an organization
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Work Specialization
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degree to which tasks in organization are / into seperate jobs with each step compleated.
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Overspecialization
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result in human diseconomis from boredom, fatige, stress, poor quality, absenteeism, and higher turnover
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Departmentalization
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How much and how are you doing it?
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Simple Structure
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low departmentilzation, wide span of control, cenralized authority, littl formalization
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Functional Structure
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operation, finace, marketing, human resou., product research, development
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Divisional Structure
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seperate buisness units or divisions with limited autonomy under the coordination and control the parent corporation
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Chain of Command
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continuous line of authority that extend from upper level to the lower level and clarifies who reports whom.
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Authority
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rights inherent in managerial position to tell what to do and to expect them to do it
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Responsibility
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obligation or expectation to perform
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Unity of Command
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concepet that a person should have one boss and should report only to that person
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Span of control
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# of employees who effectively&efficently supervised by a manager
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Centralization
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which decision making is concentrated at upper level
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Decentraliztion
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decisions making is pushed down to the managers who are closest to the action
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Employee Empowerment
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increasing the decesion making authority/power of employees
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Formalization
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degree to which jobs within the organization are standarized and extend to which employee behavior is guided by rules and procedures
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High Formalization
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jobs offer little discretion over what is to be done
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Low Formalization
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fewer constraints on how employees do their work
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Degree of Environmental Uncertainty
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organic structures; mechanistic structures need stable environments
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Strategy of Structure
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achievment of strategic goals by changes in org. structure that accomadate support change.
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Routine technology
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mechanistic organizations
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non-routine technology
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organic organizations
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Virtual Organization
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consists of small core of full-time employees that temporarily hire specialists to work on opportunites that rise
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Network
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small organization that outcorses its major business functions in order to concentrate on what it does best
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Modular
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outside suppliers to provide product components for its fina assembly operations
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