Unit 5 Flashcards
When did changes come more quickly?
1900s
What organization combines traditional functional structure with a product structure?
Matrix Organizations
In a matrix structure, product managers have control over?
Product related matters
In a Matrix structure department managers have authority over?
Matters related to company policy
Who typically uses matrix structures?
Many information technology companies engaged in software development
Who created the term boundaryless organization?
Jack Welch
What is an organization that eliminates traditional barriers between departments as well as barriers between the organization and external environment?
Boundaryless organizations
Nonessential functions are outsourced
Modular organizations
Two or more companies find and area of collaboration and combine their efforts to create a partnership that is beneficial for both parties
Strategic Alliances
What is an organization that actively seeks to acquire knowledge and change behavior as a result of the newly acquired knowledge?
Learning Organizations
Planning
- Vision and Mission
- Strategizing
3 Goals and Ovjectives
Organizing
- Organization Design
- Culture
- Social Networks
Leading
- Leadership
- Decision making
- Communications
- Groups/Teams
- Motivation
Controlling
- Systems and Processes
- Strategic Human Resources
Creating or enhancing the structure of an organization
Organizational Design
How individual and team work within an organization are coordinated
Organizational structure
What does structure do?
Specifies reporting relationships, delineates formal communication channels, and describes how separate actions of individuals are linked together
What does management operate from?
Planning, organizing, staffing, leading/directing, controlling:monitoring, and motivating
What does specific organizing duties involve?
The assignment of tasks, the grouping of tasks into departments, and the assignment of authority and allocation of resources across the organization
What is structure
The framework in which the organization defines how tasks are divided, resources are deployed, and departments are coordinated
A managers formal and legitimate right to make decisions, issue orders and allocate resources to achieve desired outcomes for an organization
Authority
Employees duty to perform assigned tasks or activities
Responsibility
Those with authority and responsibility must report and justify task outcomes to those above them in the chain of command
Accountability
Managers have the formal power to direct and control immediate subordinates executing specific tasks within a chain of command , usually within a specific department
Line authority
Managers have formal power over a subset of activities that include outside departments
Functional Authority
Staff specialists manage operations within their expertise
Staff Authority
