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Management 101: Organizational Structure And Design
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Management 101: Organizational Structure And Design
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1. The formal arrangement of jobs within an organization

2. High specialization; Rigid departmentalization; Clear chain of command; Narrow spans of control; Centralization; High formalization

3. The production of items in continuous processes

4. Give customers what they want - a voice; Allow organizations to respond to complex problems; Nurture internal and external relationships; Bring focus back to marketplace; Provide way to cope with rising costs and uncertainties of product development

5. A scheduling system in which employees are required to work a specific number of hours a week but are free to vary those hours within certain limits

6. The production of item in units or small batches

7. An organizational structure in which employees continuously work on projects

8. A work team composed of individuals from various functional specialties

9. An organizational structure whose design is not defined by or limited to the horizontal - vertical or external boundaries imposed by a predefined structure

10. The obligation or expectation to perform any assigned duties

11. Cross-functional team; Task force; Communities of practice

12. The practice of having two or more people split a full-time job

13. An organizational structure that consists of a small core of full-time employees and outside specialists temporarily hired as needed to work on projects

14. Cross-functional teams; Cross-hierarchical teams; Free flow of information; Wide spans of control; Decentralization; Low formalization

15. Potential interpersonal conflict; Different views and competing goals; Logistics of coordinating

16. An organizational structure made up of separate - semiautonomous units or divisions

17. Authority that entitles a manager to direct the work of an employee

18. The basis by which jobs are grouped together

19. The rights inherited in a management position to tell people what to do and to expect them to do it

20. A work arrangement in which employees work at home and are linked to the workplace by computer

21. The degree to which decision making is concentrated at upper levels of the organization

22. Functional departmentalization; Geographical departmentalization; Product departmentalization; Process departmentalization; Customer departmentalization

23. An organizational design that groups together similar or related occupational specialties

24. High demands of managing the process; Extensive support needed; Cultural challenges; Greater need for flexibility; Crucial changes required in low knowledge is controlled and shared

25. Group of people who share a concern - a set of problems - or a passion about a topic - and who deepen their knowledge and experience in that area by interacting on an ongoing basis