Chapter 11 - Contemporary Organizational Design Flashcards
An organization structure that assigns specialists from different functional departments to work on one or more projects
Matrix structure
A organizational structure in which the entire organization is made up of work teams
Team structure
An organizational structure in which employees continuously work on projects
Project structure
An organization whose design is not defined by or limited to, the horizontal, vertical, or external boundaries imposed by an predefined structure
Boundaryless organization
An organization that consists of a small core of full-time employees and outside specialists temporarily hired as needed to work on projects
Virtual organization
An organization that uses it’s own employees to do some work activities and networks of outside supplies to provide other needed product components or work processes
Network organization
An organization that has developed the capacity to continuously learn, adapt, and change
Learning organization
A work team composed of indivuals from various functional specialties
Cross-functional team
A temporary committee or team formed to tackle a specific short-term problem affecting several departments
Task force (or ad hoc committee)
Groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in that area by interacting on an ongoing basis
Communities of practice
Pending up the search for new ideas beyond the organization’s boundaries and allowing innovations to easily transfer inward or outward
Open innovation
Collaborative relationships between two or more organizations in which they combine their resources and capabilities for some business purpose
Strategic partnerships
A works arrangement in which employees work at home and are linked to the workplace by computer
Telecommuting
A workweek where employees work longer hours per day but fewer days per week
Compressed workweek
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
Flextime (or flexible work hours)
