Mos 2181- Chapter 14

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Define: organizational structure

Back 1

formally dictates how jobs/tasks are divided and coordinated between individuals and groups within the company

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Define: organizational chart

Back 2

a drawing that represents every job in the organization, and the formal reporting relationships between those jobs

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Define: work specialization

Back 3

the degree to which tasks in an organization are divided into separate jobs

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Define: chain of command

Back 4

specifies who reports to whom

- signifies formal authority relationships

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Define: span of control

Back 5

represents how many employees each manager in the organization has responsibility for

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Define: centralization

Back 6

aspect of structure that dictates where decisions are formally made in organizations

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Define: formalization

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the degree to which rules and procedures are used to standardize behaviours and decisions in an organization

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Define: mechanistic organizations

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efficient, rigid, predictable, and standardized organizations that thrive in stable environments

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Define: organic organizations

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flexible, adaptive, outward focused organizations that thrive in dynamic environments

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Define: organizational design

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the process of creating, selecting or changing the structure of an organization

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Organizational Design

Define: business environment

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the outside environment, including customers, competitors, suppliers, distributors, and other factors external to them, which all affect organizational design

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Organizational Design

Define: company strategy

Back 12

an organizations objectives and goals and how it tries to capitalize on its assets to make money

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Organizational Design

Define: technology

Back 13

the method by which an organization transforms inputs to outputs

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Organizational Design

Define: company size

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Define: simple structure

Back 15

an organizational form that features on person as the central decision making figure

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Define: bureaucratic structure

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an organizational form that exhibits many of the facets of a mechanistic organization

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Bureaucratic Structure

Define: functional structure

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an organization form in which employees are grouped by the functions they perform for the organization

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Bureaucratic Structure

Define: product structure

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an organizational form in which employees are grouped around different products that the company produces

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Bureaucratic Structure

Define: multi-divisional structure

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an organizational form in which employees are grouped together by product, geography or client

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Bureaucratic Structure

Define: geographic structure

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an organizational form in which employees are grouped around the different locations where the company does business

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Bureaucratic Structure

Define: client structure

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an organizational form in which employees are organized around serving customers

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Bureaucratic Structure

Define: matrix structure

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a complex form on organizational structure that combines a functional and multi-divisional grouping

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Define: restructuring

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the process of changing an organizations structure

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What is the effect of restructuring on job performance?

Back 24

WEAK NEGATIVE

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What is the effect of restructuring on organizational commitment?

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MODERATE NEGATIVE