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MGMT 3000 Test 2 - UGA LyonsExam|101 Q’s and A’s
Organizational Design - -The formal systems, levers, and decisions an
organization adopts or employs in pursuit of its strategy.
- Division of Labor - -The manner in which work in a firm is divided among
employees
- Vertical Specialization - -How much an employee creates, executes, and
administers activities in a certain area of the firm.
- Horizontal Specialization - -The Breadth of activities that are performed in
a certain job.
- Organizers - -Those who believe that more control is warranted in
organizational design to ensure that jobs are performed satisfactory and
efficiently.
- Bureaucratic Approach - -An extreme form of organizational control in
which systems are highly formalized and are characterized by extensive
rules, procedures, policies, and institutions.
- Behaviorists - -Those who support a more open organizational structure
where roles and responsibilities are loosely defined.
- Clan Approach - -A type of organizational control that includes self-
supervising teams that are responsible for a set of tasks.
- Organizational Structure - -The pattern of organizational roles,
relationships, and procedures that enable coordinated action among
employees.
- Defines the roles of the labor force
Coordinates activities between members
Identifies the borders of the firm and external relationships. - -What are the
three functions of an organization?
- Functional Structure - -A structure that organizes a firm in terms of the
main activities that need to be performed, such as production, marketing,
sales, and accounting.
, - Divisional Structure - -A structure that groups diverse functions into
separate divisions.
- Matrix Structure - -A structure where both divisional and functional
managers have equal authority in the organization
- Network Structure - -A structure where "Knowledge Workers" are
organized to work as individual contributors or to be a part of a work cluster
that provides a certain expertise for the organization.
- Decision Rights - -Rights that include initiating, approving, implementing,
and controlling various types of strategic or tactical decisions.
- Delegation - -The process by which managers transfer decision rights to
individual employees.
- Centralized Organization - -An organizational structure characterized by
formal structures that control employee behavior by concentrating decisions
in a top-down, hierarchical fashion.
- Decentralized Organization - -An organizational structure where key
decisions are made at all levels of the firm, not mandated from the top.
- Silos - -A functional or divisional unit that operates by its own rules and
guidelines and does not openly share information with other units
- Mutual Adaptation - -The process by which firms import the nature of their
overarching industrial environment and adopt their organization in response
to evolving contextual factors.
- Situations that require efficiency of production or functional expertise - -
Function structure is best suited for...
- Change is a constant, such as technology and fashion - -Mutual adaptation
is important to industries where....
- Ambidextrous Organizations - -Maintain efficiency in current strategic
operations while preparing for imminent changes
Create a separate team to work on future opportunities while the rest of the
firm focuses on the primary business
- Creates a forum for creativity and innovation - -Advantage of
ambidextrous organizations?
- Culture - -The way individuals in an organization uniquely and collectively
think, feel, and act.
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