Organizational Structure Flashcards
An organizational form that exhibits many of the facts of a mechanistic organization.
Bureaucratic structure
A complex form of organizational structure that combines a functional and multi-divisional grouping.
Matrix structures
An organizational form that features one person as the central decision-making figure.
Simple structure
An organizational form in which employees are grouped around different products that the company produces.
Product structure
The outside environment, including customers, competitors, suppliers, and distributors, which all have an impact on organizational design.
Business environment
The number of employees in a company.
Company size
Refers to where decisions are formally made in organizations.
Centralization
Efficient, rigid, predictable, and standardized organizations that thrive in stable environments.
Mechanistic organizations
An organizational form in which employees are organized around serving customers.
Client Structure
Formally dictates how jobs and tasks are divided and coordinated between individuals and groups within the company.
Organizational structure
A drawing that represents every job in the organization and formal reporting relationships between those jobs.
Organizational chart
Answer to the question of “who reports to whom?” and signifies formal authority relationships.
Chain of command
The degree to which rules and procedures are used to standardize behaviors and decisions in an organization.
Formalization
The process of creating, selecting, or changing the structure of an organization.
Organizational design
An organizational form in which employees are grouped by the functions they perform for the organization.
Functional structure
Flexible, adaptive, outward-focused organizations that thrive in dynamic environments.
Organic organizations
An organizational form in which employees are grouped around the different locations where the company does business.
Geographic structure
An organization’s objectives and goals and how it tries to capitalize on its assets to make money.
Company strategy
The degree to which tasks in an organization are divided into separate jobs.
Work specialization
The method by which an organization transforms inputs to outputs.
Technology
Represents how many employees each manager in the organization has responsibility for.
Span of control
An organizational form in which employees are grouped by product, geography, or client.
Multi-divisional structure
The process of changing an organization’s structure.
Restructuring
