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By Nolan VanDerWerff
Organizing | The Function of management that creates the organizational structure. |
Organizational Design | When managers develop or change the organization's structure. |
Work Specialization | Dividing work activities into separate job tasks: also called division of labor. |
Departmentalization | How jobs are grouped together. |
Functional Departmentalization | Grouping activities by functions performed |
Product Departmentalization | Grouping activities by major product areas |
Customer Departmentalization | Grouping activities by customer |
Geographic Departmentalization | Grouping activities on the basis of geography of territory |
Process Departmentalization | Grouping activities on the basis of work or customer flow. |
Cross-Functional Teams | Teams made up of individuals from various departments and that cross traditional department lines. |
Chain of Command | The line of authority extending from upper organizational levels to lower levels, which clarifies who reports to whom. |
Authority | The rights inherent in a managerial position to give orders and expect the orders to be obeyed. |
Responsibility | An obligation to perform assigned duties. |
Line Authority | Authority that entitles a manager to direct the work of an employee. |
Staff Authority | Positions with some authority that have been created to support, assist, and advise those holding line authority |
Unity of Command | The management principle that no person should report to more than one person. |
Power | An individual's capacity to influence decisions. |
Span of Control | The number of employees a manager can efficiently and effectively supervise. |
Centralization | The degree to which decision making takes place at upper levels of an organization. |
Decentralization | The degree to which lower-level managers provide input or actually make decisions. |
Formalization | How standardized an organization's jobs are and the extent to which employee behavior is guided by rules and procedures. |
Mechanistic Organization | A bureaucratic organization; a structure that's high in specialization, formalization, and centralization. |
Organic Organization | A structure that's low in specialization, formalization, and centralization |
Unit Production | The production of items in units or small batches. |
Mass Production | Large-Batch manufacturing |
Process Production | Continuous flow of products being produced |
Simple Structure | An organizational design with low departmentalization, wide spans of control, authority centralized in a single person, and little formalization. |
Functional Structure | An occupational design that groups similar or related occupational specialties together. |
Divisional Structure | An organizational structure made up of separate business units or divisions |
Team Structure | A structure in which the entire organization is made up of work teams |
Matrix Structure | A structure in which specialists from different functional departments are assigned to work on projects led by a project manager. |
Project Structure | A structure in which employees continually work on projects. |
Boundaryless Organization | An organization whose design is not defined by, or limited to, boundaries imposed by a predefined structure. |
Virtual Organization | An organization that consists of a small core of full-time employees and outside specialists temporarily hired as needed to work on projects. |
Network Organization | An organization that uses its own employees to do some work activities and networks of outside suppliers to provide other needed product components or work processes. |
Learning Organization | An organization that has developed the capacity to continuously learn, adapt, and change |
Organization Culture | The shared values, principles, traditions, and ways of doing things that influence the way organizational members act. |
Strong Cultures | Organizational cultures in which the key values are deeply held and widely shared. |
Is the rights inherent in a managerial position to give orders and to expect the orders to be obeyed?
The inherent right in a managerial position to give orders and expect the orders to be obeyed is termed authority.
Which of the following terms refers to the rights inherent in a managerial position to give orders and expect them to be obeyed?
In simple terms, authority refers to the commanding of subordinates, the issuing of orders and instructions, and the process of exacting obedience from a workforce. While authority is defined as having the power to give orders and be obeyed, it also encompasses the power to make decisions on the organization's behalf.