TOS B: Organizational Structure - McShane Flashcards
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The division of labor as well as the patterns of coordination, communication, workflow, and formal power that direct organizational activities.
Organizational structure
It refers to the subdivision of work into separate jobs assigned to different people.
Division of labor
The organization of employees from several departments into a temporary team for the purpose of developing a product or service.
concurrent engineering
The number of people directly reporting to the next level in the hierarchy.
span of control
The degree to which formal decision authority is held by a small group of people, typically those at the top of the organizational hierarchy.
Centralization
The degree to which organizations standardize behavior through rules, procedures, formal training, and related mechanisms.
Formalization
An organizational structure with a narrow span of control and a high
degree of formalization and centralization.
mechanistic structure
An organizational structure with a wide span of control, little formalization, and decentralized decision making.
organic structure
It is a fundamental strategy for coordinating organizational activities because it influences organizational behavior in the following ways. Also, it specifies how employees and their activities are grouped together.
Departmentalization
An organizational structure in which employees are organized around specific knowledge or other resources.
functional structure
An organizational structure in which employees are organized around geographic areas, outputs (products or services), or clients.
divisional structure
An organizational structure in which work processes and executive functions are distributed around the world through global centers,
rather than developed in a home country and replicated in satellite
countries or regions.
globally integrated enterprise
An organizational structure built around self-directed teams that complete an entire piece of work.
team-based structure
An organizational structure that overlays two structures (such as
a geographic divisional and a functional structure) in order to leverage the benefits of both.
matrix structure
An alliance of several organizations for the purpose of creating a product or serving a client.
network structure
This includes anything outside the organization, including most stake holders.
external environment
It refers to the mechanisms or processes by which an organization turns out its product or service.
Technology
The way the organization positions itself in its setting in relation to its
stakeholders, given the organization’s resources, capabilities, and mission.
Organizational strategy
