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Cannon Management Exam 2|125 Questions with Solutions
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Cannon Management Exam 2|125Questions with Solutions
accountability - -the expectation that employees will perform a job, take
corrective action when necessary, and report upward on the status and
quality of their performance
- authority - -the legitimate right to make decisions and to tell other people
what to do
- broker - -a person who assembles and coordinates participants in a
network
- centralized organization - -an organization in which high-level executives
make most decisions and pass them down to lower levels for implementation
- coordination - -the procedures that link the various parks of an
organization for the purpose of achieving the organization's overall mission
- coordination by mutual adjustment - -units interact with one another to
make accommodations to achieve flexible coordination
- coordination by plan - -interdependent units are required to meet
deadlines and objectives that contribute to a common goal
- corporate governance - -the role of a corporation's executive staff and
board of directors in ensuring that the firm's activities meet the goals of the
firm's stakeholders
- decentralized organization - -an organization in which lower-level
managers make important decisions
- delegation - -the assignment of new or additional responsibilities to a
subordinate
- departmentalization - -subdividing an organization into smaller subunits
- differentiation - -an aspect of the organization's internal environment
created by job specialization and the division of labor
- division of labor - -the assignment of different tasks to different people or
groups
, - divisional organization - -departmentalization that groups units around
products, customers, or geographic regions
- dynamic network - -temporary arrangements among partners that can be
assembled and reassembled to adapt to the environment
- formalization - -the presence of rules and regulations governing how
people in the organization interact
- functional organziation - -departmentalization around specialized activities
such as production, marketing, and human resources
- hierarchy - -the authority levels of the organizational pyramid
- integration - -the degree to which differentiated work units work together
and coordinate their efforts
- line departments - -units that deal directly with the organization's primary
goods and services
- matrix organization - -an organization composed of dual reporting
relationships in which some employees report to two superiors - a functional
and a divisional manager
- organization chart - -the reporting structure and division of labor in an
organization
- network organization - -a collection of independent, mostly single-function
firms that collaborate on a good or service
- reponsibility - -the assignment of a task that an employee is supposed to
carry out
- span of control - -the number of subordinates who report directly to an
executive or supervisor
- specialization - -a process in which different individuals and units perform
different tasks
- staff departments - -units that support line departments
- standardization - -establishing common routines and procedures that
apply uniformly to everyone
- subunits - -subdivisions of an organization
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