Chapter 4 Flashcards
Four different kinds of staff partnerships:
(1) Giving advice exclusively
(2) consulting
(3) Line managers
(4) Concurring Authority
An organizational structure in which each employee reports to both a functional or division manager and to a project or group manager.
Matrix Organization
________ is a special type of staff authority over others who are not their line subordinates.
Functional (specialized) authority
Three Types of Organizational Structure
Functional Organization
Product or Market Organization
Matrix Organization
____ is a one-person company that is both owned and run.
Sole Proprietorship
____ special sort of business owned by clients or users, to who typically distributes their earnings tax-free in proportion to their patronage.
Cooperatives
An organization of two or more partners to continue on as co - owners of a business for profit is referred to as ______.
Uniform Partnership Act
____ is a recently established business structure permitted based on state law.
Limited Liability Company (LLC)
The culture of an organization is not _______.
static
____ are legally recognized as being held by shareholders, who typically have no responsibility that goes beyond stock value loss.
Corporations
This is a form of departmentalization in which everyone engaged in one functional activity, such as engineering or marketing, is grouped into one unit.
Functional Organization
Legal form of organization
Sole Proprietorship
Partnership
limited liability company (LLC)
Corporations
Cooperatives
In a typical industrial firm, the three Ps are:
production
sales
finance
The advantages of pass-through taxation and flexibility. There is only ____ on income
one tax
Relationships are concentrated “facilitative activity” for the economy scale, consistency, or unique capacity, but merely serve to support the primary mission.
Service
This depends on the number of people reporting directly to each manager, referred to as the _________.
Span of Management or span of control
____ is an organizational structure where every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity.
Hierarchical organization
This refers to the organization of a company by divisions that bring together all those involved with a certain type of product or customer.
Product or Market Organization
____ allow combining managerial expertise, financial insight, and strengths of multiple individuals with direct financial stakes in the business, but experience the drawbacks of a split decisionmaking process and possible harm when partners disagree, the business suffers.
Partnerships
The ________ of control is definitely to increase the spans of control, which ultimately decreases the number of organizational levels within a given company or organization.
current trend in spans
An organizational structure known as a ____ is one in which every entity in the organization, with the exception of one, reports to only one other entity.
hierarchy
________ were those that assisted the line in achieving these by offering some kind of service or advise to achieve your goals.
Staff
________ gives the staff specialist veto power in the relevant field.in front of the line manager.
Concurring Authority
an organization’s ________ were those that carried out the primary goals or missions of the organization, and these were believed to.
line functions
________ is characterized as the underlying presumptions, values, and beliefs and interactions that support the distinct social and psychological surroundings of a company.
Organizational culture
____ who does troubleshooting or specialist workforce that services the entire organization, and particular assignments for a single management organization in a particular field of expertise.
helper
According to Weihrich and Koontz, ____ is key to people doing their best job.
collaboration
