Organizational structure

Question 1

organizational structure:

Answer 1

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

Question 2

organizational chart

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Work specialization

Answer 3

Represents the degree to which tasks in an organization are divided into separate jobs.

Question 4

Chain of command

Answer 4

Answers the question of who reports to whom and signifies formal authority relationships.

Question 5

Span of control

Answer 5

Represents how many employees each manager in the organization has responsibility for.
- narrow span of control: allows managers to be much more hands on with employees using directive leadership styles while developing close mentoring relationships

Question 6

Centralization

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Refers to where decisions are formally made in organizations.

Question 6

Centralization

Answer 6

Refers to where decisions are formally made in organizations.

Question 7

Formalization

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

Question 8

mechanistic organizations:

Answer 8

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

• High levels of formalization
• A rigid and hierarchical chain of command
• High degree of work specialization
• Centralization of decision making.
• Narrow spans of control.

Question 9

Organic organizations:

Answer 9

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

• Low levels of formalizations
• Weak or multiple chains of command
• Low levels of work specialization
• Wide spans of control
• decentralized decision making

Question 10

Organizational design:

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

Question 11

Business environment:

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The outside environment, including customers, competitors, suppliers, distributors, and other factors external to the firm, which all affect organizational design.

Whether it is stable or dynamic.

Question 12

stable business environment

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Don’t change frequently and any changes that do occur happen slowly.
Allow organizations to focus on efficiency and require little change over time.

Question 13

dynamic business environment

Answer 13

Change on a frequent basis and require organizations to have structures that are more adaptive.

Question 14

low cost producer (company strategy)

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Focus on selling products at the lowest possible cost.

Need to focus on being as efficient as possible.

Mechanistic approach to organizational design.

Question 15

Differentiator:

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Focusing on creating a product that is unique.

Higher level of quality or offers features a low cost product doesn’t

Hinges on adjusting to a changing environment quickly, which tends to make an organic structure more appropriate.

Question 16

Technology:

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The method by which an organization transforms inputs to outputs.

More routine the tech → mechanistic

If technologies need to be changed or altered → organic structure.

Question 17

Company size:

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The number of employees in a company.
As organizations become larger, they need to rely on some combination of specialization, formalization, and centralization to control their activities, thereby becoming more mechanistic in nature.

Question 18

Simple structure:

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An organizational form that features one person as the central decision-making figure.
- more than 80% of employing organizations have fewer than 19 employees and have a simple structure

Question 19

Bureaucratic structures:

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An organizational form that exhibits many of the facets of a mechanistic organization

• High levels of work specialization.
• High level of Formalization
• High level of centralization of authority
• Rigid and well defined chains of command.
• Narrow spans of control.

Question 20

Functional structure:

Answer 20

• An organizational form in which employees are grouped by the functions they perform for the organization.
• Ppl of the same skills are grouped together.

Question 21

Multidivisional structure:

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

Question 22

Product structure:

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

Question 23

Geographic structure:

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

Question 24

Client structure:

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

Question 25

Matrix structure:

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