Organizational Structure Flashcards

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An organizational form that exhibits many of the facts of a mechanistic organization.

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Bureaucratic structure

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A complex form of organizational structure that combines a functional and multi-divisional grouping.

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Matrix structures

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An organizational form that features one person as the central decision-making figure.

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Simple structure

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4
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An organizational form in which employees are grouped around different products that the company produces.

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Product structure

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5
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The outside environment, including customers, competitors, suppliers, and distributors, which all have an impact on organizational design.

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Business environment

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6
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The number of employees in a company.

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Company size

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Refers to where decisions are formally made in organizations.

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Centralization

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Efficient, rigid, predictable, and standardized organizations that thrive in stable environments.

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Mechanistic organizations

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9
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An organizational form in which employees are organized around serving customers.

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Client Structure

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10
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Formally dictates how jobs and tasks are divided and coordinated between individuals and groups within the company.

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Organizational structure

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11
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A drawing that represents every job in the organization and formal reporting relationships between those jobs.

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Organizational chart

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12
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Answer to the question of “who reports to whom?” and signifies formal authority relationships.

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Chain of command

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The degree to which rules and procedures are used to standardize behaviors and decisions in an organization.

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Formalization

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The process of creating, selecting, or changing the structure of an organization.

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Organizational design

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15
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An organizational form in which employees are grouped by the functions they perform for the organization.

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Functional structure

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16
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Flexible, adaptive, outward-focused organizations that thrive in dynamic environments.

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Organic organizations

17
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An organizational form in which employees are grouped around the different locations where the company does business.

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Geographic structure

18
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An organization’s objectives and goals and how it tries to capitalize on its assets to make money.

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Company strategy

19
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The degree to which tasks in an organization are divided into separate jobs.

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Work specialization

20
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The method by which an organization transforms inputs to outputs.

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Technology

21
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Represents how many employees each manager in the organization has responsibility for.

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Span of control

22
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An organizational form in which employees are grouped by product, geography, or client.

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Multi-divisional structure

23
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The process of changing an organization’s structure.

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Restructuring