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| Organizational Architecture |
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| The organizational structure control systems, culture, human resouce management systems that together determine how efficiently and effictively organizational resources are used. |
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| A formal system of task and reporting relationships that coordinates and motivates organizationl members so that they will work otgether to achieve organizational goals |
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| The process by which managers make specific organizing choices that result in a particular kind of organizational structure |
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| Factors that influence managers choice of an organizational structure |
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The Org Environment
Strategy
Technology
Human Resources |
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| The process by which managers decide how to divide tasks into specific jobs |
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| The process of reducing the number of tasks that each worker performs |
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| INcreasing the number of different tasks in a given job by changing the division of labor |
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| Increasing the degree of responsibility a worker has over his or her job |
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| Desribe the types of organizational structures managers can design, and explain why the choose one structure over another |
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Fuctional Structure
Divisional Structure
Product Structure
Geogrpahic Structure
Market Structure
Matrix Structure
Product Team Structure
Hybrid Structure |
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| An organizational structure composed of all the departments that an organization requires to proudce its goods or services |
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| An organizational structure composed of separate business units withing which are functions that work together to produce a specific product for a specific customer |
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| An organizational structure in which each product line or business is handled by a self-contained division |
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| An organizationl structure in which each regions of a country or area of the world is served by a self-contained division |
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| An org structure in which each kind of customer is served by a self-contained division; also called customer structure |
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| An org structure that simultaneously groups people and resources by function and by product |
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| An org structure in which employees are permanently designed to a cross-functional team and report only to the product team manager or to one of his or her direct subordinates |
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| A group of managers brought together from different departments to perform organizational tasks |
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| The sturture of a large organization that has many divisions and simulatenusly uses many different organizational structures |
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| The power to hold people accountable for their actions and to make decisions concerning the use of organiational resources |
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| An organization's chain of command, specifying the relative authority of each manager. |
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| The number of subordinates who report directly to a manger |
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| Someone in the direct line or chain of command who has formal authority over people and resources at lower levels |
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| Someone responsible for managing a specialst fuction, such as finance or marketing |
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| Giving lower-level management and nonmanagerial employees the right to make important decisions about how to use organizational resources |
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| Organizing tools that managers can use to increase communication and coordination among fuctions and divisions |
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| A comittee of managers from various functions or division who meet to solve a specific, mutual problem; also called ad hoc committee |
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| The shsared set of beliefs, expectations, values, and norms that influence how members of an organization relate to one another and cooperate to achieve organizational goals |
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