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15 Cards in this Set
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Differentiation
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Process by which an organizaiton allocates people and resources to tasks and establishes the authority relationships that allow the organization to achieve its goals. How things are divide up.
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Organizational Role
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Set of task-related behaviors requried of a person by his or her position in an organization.
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Authority
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Power to hold people accountable for their actions and to make decisions concerning the use of resources.
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Control
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The abiltiy to coordinate and motivate people to work in an organizations's interests.
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Function
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Subunit composed of a group of people who possess similar skills and knowledge to perform their jobs
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Division
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A subunit that consists of a collection of functions that are related to a particular good or service
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Horizontal differentiation
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Refers to the way an organziation groups tasks into roles and roles into subunits.
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Vertical differentiation
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Refers to the way an organization designs its hierarchy of authority (reporting relationships)
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Subunit orientation
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Refers to the tendency to view one's role in the organization strictly from the persepctive of the time frame, goals and orientation of one's subunit.
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Integration
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Used to pull things back together. Process of coordinating various tasks, runctions nad divisions so that they work together and not against each other.
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Highyly centralized
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when managers at the top of the hierarchy retain the authority to make important decisions.
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Highly decentralized
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When managers at all levels are allowed to make decisions regarding resources & new project.
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Standardization
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conformity to specific models or examples
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Mutual adjustment
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Process of allowing people to use their judgement rather than standardized rules to address a problem
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Mechanistic & organic
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designed to induce people to behave in perdictable ways. o- structures promote flexibility so people initiate chnage and can adapt quickly to changing conditions
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