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Organizing and Staffing Flashcards

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A management function that provides the relationship between people and the activities that they will undertake as to fulfill their organizational objectives.

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Organizing

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An entity that results from people joining together in pursuit of a common cause.

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Organization

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Defined as self-contained collection of interacting interdependent components, working together toward a common purpose.

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Organizational System

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Functions of an Organizational System:

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  1. Input Mechanism
  2. Transformation
  3. Output Mechanism
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The process through which needed resources are
acquired and replaced.

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Input Mechanism

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The internal process whereby resources received through the input channels.

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Transformation

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The process of delivering the goods and services produced to the external environment.

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Output Mechanism

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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

People

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Input Mechanism

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9
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Test Request

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Input Mechanism

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10
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Specimen

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Input Mechanism

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11
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Information Supplies

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Input Mechanism

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12
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Financial Resources

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Input Mechanism

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13
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Test Performance

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Transformation

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14
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Personnel

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Transformation

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15
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Instrument

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Transformation

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16
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Expertise

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Transformation

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17
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Test Result

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Output Mechanism

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18
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Consultation

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Output Mechanism

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19
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Salaries

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Output Mechanism

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20
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Information

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Output Mechanism

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21
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Identify what Function of Organizational System:

Wastes

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Output Mechanism

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Characteristics of Organization:

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  • Holistic and synergistic with clearly defined boundaries
  • Have purposeful activity or primary task
  • Develop into hierarchy of system
  • Organizations operate as open systems
  • Seeks a state of stability and equilibrium
  • Self – regulating
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23
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Identify what Type of Organizational Structure:

Decentralized structure

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Flat

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Identify what Type of Organizational Structure:

Span of control and authority is widened

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Flat

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Identify what Type of Organizational Structure:

There is participation in the lower level of management

26
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Identify what Type of Organizational Structure:

Centralized

27
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Identify what Type of Organizational Structure:

The managers have full control of members

28
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Identify what Type of Organizational Structure:

Oldest and simplest form

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Bureaucratic/Line/Hierarchial

29
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Identify what Type of Organizational Structure:

Rule centered structure

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Bureaucratic/Line/Hierarchial

30
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Identify what Type of Organizational Structure:

Associated with chain of command

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Bureaucratic/Line/Hierarchial

31
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Identify what Type of Organizational Structure:

Downward communication

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Bureaucratic/Line/Hierarchial

32
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Identify what Type of Organizational Structure:

Combination of flat and pyramid type

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Shared Governance

33
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Shared Governance promotes:

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  • Partnership
  • Equity
  • Accountability
  • Ownership
34
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Characteristics of an Organizational Structure:

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⚬ Division of labor
⚬ Chain of command
⚬ Span of control
⚬ Level of management position
⚬ Organizational relationship

35
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Direct relationship, uninterrupted.

36
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Dotted line, coordinated relationship.

37
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Identify the Form of Organization:

Lines of authority assigned by the owners of the organization

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Formal Bureaucracy

38
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Identify the Form of Organization:

The members of this group know whom they work, whom they supervise

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Formal Bureaucracy

39
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Identify the Form of Organization:

How their department relates to other groups and even who supervise their boss

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Formal Bureaucracy

40
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Identify the Form of Organization:

Alliance that form outside the boundaries of the formal bureaucracy from the interaction and allegiance of people with common interest

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Informal Groups

41
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What are included under the Design Element and Factors?

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  1. Task to be performed
  2. People involved
  3. Workplace
42
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Includes type of equipment, level of automation, nature of the product or service to be produced.

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Task to be performed

43
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Number of people needed and availability to perform the work are very important in an organization; motivation also pays a very important factor.

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People Involved

44
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Includes the total space available, amount of storage room, the visibility and accessibility of workers, supervisors and proximity of test areas.

45
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What are included in Design Strategies and Models?

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  1. Bureaucratic Models
  2. Situational Models
46
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Important features of Bureaucratic Models:

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  • Firing Modern job description
  • Hierarchy
  • Rules and regulation are consistently applied.
  • Hiring
47
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Repetitive tasks and need minimally trained work force.

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Routine Strategy

48
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Non-repetitive work performed by a professionally prepared staff.

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Engineering Strategy

49
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Applied to produce best, unique products whereby workers are extremely skilled.

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Craft Strategy

50
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For work that requires investigation such as the structural development.

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Discover Strategy

51
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Principles of Organizational Structure and Authority:

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  1. Departmentalization
  2. Decentralization
  3. Unity of command
  4. Scalar principle
  5. Span of control
  6. Exceptions principle
52
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The formal written presentation of the structural Plan of the Organization

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Organizational Chart

53
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Concepts of Authorithy:

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  • The empowerment by formal job classification of an individual to make commitments and act on behalf of the organization.
  • To decide how resources, rewards and penalties are used.
  • To ensure that designated goals and responsibilities are achieved.
54
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Identify what type of Authority:

Authority taking the straight-line route (direct).

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Line Authority

55
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Identify what Type of Authority:

Clear chain of command

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Line Authority

56
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Identify what Type of Authority:

Centralization of power

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Line Authority

57
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Identify what Type of Authority:

Top managers, CEo and supervisors

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Line Authority

58
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Identify what Type of Authority:

Type of authority the personnel office exerts (indirect)

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Staff Authority

59
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Identify what Type of Authority:

Responsible for improving the effectiveness of the of line personnel to performed their task.

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Staff Authority

60
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Identify what Type of Authority:

Exercise control within the boundaries of professional’s specialty

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Functional Authority

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