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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. Virtual organization; Network organization

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

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

4. A workweek where employees work longer hours per day but fewer days per week

5. The degree to which lower-level employees provide input or actually make decisions

6. The view that authority comes from the willingness of subordinates to accept it

7. An organizational structure that assigns specialists from different functional departments to work on one or more projects

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

9. Temporary - freelance - or contract workers whose employment is contingent upon demand for their services

10. Telecommuting; Compressed workweek; Flextime; Job sharing

11. An organizational structure in which the entire organization is made up of work teams

12. The formal arrangement of jobs within an organization

13. An organization that has developed the capacity to continuously learn - adapt - and change

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

15. Open innovation; Strategic partnership

16. An organizational structure that uses its own employees to do some work activities and networks of outside suppliers to provide other needed product components or work processes

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

18. Positions with some authority that have been created to support - assist - and advise those holding the authority

19. The management principle that each person should report to only one manager

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

21. A temporary committee or team formed to tackle a specific short-term problem affecting service department

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

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

24. Team structure; Matrix-project structure; Boundaryless structure; and Learning structure

25. The line of authority extending from upper organizational levels to the lowest levels - which clarifies who reports to whom