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19 Cards in this Set
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Cooperative and coordinated social system of two or more people with a common purpose |
Organization |
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Right to direct the actions of others |
Authority |
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Visual display of an organization's positions and lines of authority |
Organization chart |
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Organization in which managers make decisions and staff personnel provide advice and support |
Line and staff organizational |
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An organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge to improve performance |
Learning organization |
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Fitting the organization to it's environment |
Contingency design |
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Rigid bureaucracies |
Mechanistic organizations |
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Flexible, adaptive organization structures |
Organic organizations |
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Grouping related jobs or processes into major organizational subunits |
Departmentalization |
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Number of people who report directly to a given manager |
Span of control |
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The retention of decision-making authority by top management |
Centralization |
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Management's sharing of decision-making authority with lower level employees |
Decentralization |
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Assigning various degrees of decision-making authority to lower level employees |
Delegation |
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Three layer structure with a constricted middle layer |
Hourglass organization |
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Collaborative structure in which teams are the primary unit |
Cluster organization |
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Internet linked networks of value adding subcontractors |
Virtual organizations |
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Shared values ,beliefs, and language that create a common identity and sense of community |
Organizational culture |
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Shared beliefs about what the organization stands for |
Organizational values |
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Process of transforming outsiders into accepted insiders |
Organizational socialization |
