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| specification of the jobs to be done within an organization and the ways in which they relate to one another. |
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| diagram depicting a company's structure and showing employees where they fit into its operations. |
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| reporting relationships within a company. |
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| the process of identifying the specific jobs that need to be done and designating the people who will perform them. |
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| process of grouping jobs into logical units. |
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| separate company unit responsible for its own costs and profits. |
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| Product Departmentalization |
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| dividing an organization according to specific products or services being created. |
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| Process Departmentalization |
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| the dividing of an organization according to production processes used to create a good or service. |
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| Functional Departmentalization |
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| the dividing of an organization according to groups' functions or activities. |
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| Customer Departmentalization |
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| the dividing of an organization to offer products and meet needs for identifiable customer groups. |
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| Geographic Departmentalization |
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| the dividing of an organization according to the areas of the country or the world served by a business. |
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| organizations in which most decision-making authority is held by upper-level management. |
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| Decentralized Organization |
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| organization in which a great deal of decision-making authority is delegated to levels of management at points below the top. |
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| Flat Organizational Structure |
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| characteristics of decentralized companies with relatively few layers of management. |
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| Tall Organizational Structure |
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| characteristics of centralized companies with multiple layers of management. |
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| number of people supervised by one manager. |
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| process through which a manager allocates work to subordinates. |
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| duty to perform an assigned task. |
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| power to make the decisions necessary to complete a task. |
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| obligation employees have to their manager for the successful completion of an assigned task. |
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| organizational structures in which authority flows in a direct chain of command from the top of the company to the bottom. |
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| department directly linked to the production and sales of a specific product. |
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| authority based on expertise that usually involves counseling and advising line managers. |
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| advisors and counselors who help the line department in making decisions, but do not have the authority to make final decisions. |
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| Committee and Team Authority |
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| authority granted to committees or teams involved in a firm's daily operations. |
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| groups of operating employees who are empowered to plan and organize their own work and to perform that work with a minimum of supervision. |
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| organization structure in which authority is determined by the relationships between group functions and activities. |
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| organizational structure in which corporate divisions operate autonomous businesses under the larger corporate umbrella. |
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| department that resembles a separate business in that it produces and markets its own products. |
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| organizational structure created by superimposing one form of structure into another. |
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| International Organizational Structures |
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| approaches to organizational structure developed in response to the need to manufacture, purchase, and sell in global markets. |
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| network, unrelated to the firm's formal authority structure, of everyday social interactions among company employees. |
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| process of creating and maintaining the innovation and flexibility of a small-business environment within the confines of a large organization. |
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