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15 Cards in this Set
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Group of people working together in some concerted or coordinated effort to attain objectives.
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Organization
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Aggregate of the personal contacts and interactions and the associated groupings of people working within the formal organization
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Informal Organization
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Refers to the number of different types of operations performed on the job.
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Job Scope
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Refers to the freedom of employees to plan and organize their own work, work at their own pace, and move around and communicate as desired.
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Job Depth
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Ability to influence, command, or apply force; a measure of a person’s potential to get others to do what he or she wants them to do as well as to avoid being forced by others to do what he or she does not want to do.
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Power
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Legitimate exercise of power; the right to issue directives and expend resources; related to power but narrower in scope.
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Authority
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Accountability for the attainment of objectives, the use of resources, and the adherence to organizational policy
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Responsibility
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Little authority is delegated to lower levels of management.
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Centralization
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A great deal of authority is delegated to lower levels of management.
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Decentralization
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- Form of decentralization in which subordinates have authority to make decisions.
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Empowerment
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States that authority and responsibility must coincide
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Parity Principle
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States that managers should concentrate on matters that deviate significantly from normal and let subordinates handle routine matters; also called management by exception.
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Exception Principle
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States that an employee should have one, and only one, immediate manager.
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Unity of Command Principle
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States that authority in the organization flows through the chain of mangers one link at a time, ranging from the highest to the lowest ranks; also called chain of command.
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Scalar Principle
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Number of subordinates a manger can effectively manage; also called span of control.
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Span of Management
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