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Fundamentals of Organizing Responsibility, Authority, and Delegation

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Bureaucracy

Focuses on detailed procedures and rules, clearly outlined organizational hierarchy, and impersonal relationships among organization members.

Organization Chart

Represents positions of employees in an organization.

Job Description

List of specific activities that must be performed by whoever holds the position.

Negative Decentralization

Decentralization that is disadvantageous for the organization.

Delegation

Process of assigning job activities and corresponding authority to specific individuals within the organization.

Responsibility

Obligation to perform assigned activities, self- assumed commitment to handle a job to the best of one's ability.

Staff Authority

Consists of the right to advise or assist those who posses line authority as well as other staff personnel.

Accountability

Refers to the management philosophy whereby individuals are held liable or accountable for how well they use their authority and responsibility.

Overlapping Responsibility

Situation in which more than one individual is responsible for the same activity.

Unity of Command

Management principle that recommends that an individual have only one boss.

Job Activities

delegated by management to enhance the accomplishment of management system objectives.

Scalar Relationship

chain of command

Span of Management

Number of individuals a manager supervises

vertical dimensioning

extent to which an organization uses vertical levels to separate job responsibilities.

horizontal dimensioning

organization refers to which firms use lateral subdivisions or specialties within an organization.

Coordination

Achieving any and all organizational objectives.

Authority

Right to perform or command.

Positive Decentralization

Decentralization that is advantageous for the organization in which it is being implemented.

Functional Similarity Method

Most basic method of dividing job activities.

Departments based on Geography

Work is being done or the geographic markets on which the management system is focusing.

Centralization & Decentralization

Degree to which delegation exists within an organization.

Structure

Designated relationship among resources of the management system.

Formal Structure

Relationships among organization resources as outlined by management.

Departments Based on Customers

Establish departments in response to the organizations major customers.

Classical Organizing Theory

Insights of early management writers on how organizational resources can best be used to enhance goal attainment.

Division of Labor

Assignment of various portions of a particular task among a number of organization members. Individuals specialize in doing part of a task rather than the entire task.

Organizing

Establishing orderly uses for resources within the management system.

Departments Based on Product or Service

Permits the logical grouping of resources necessary to produce and market each product.

Departments Based on Function

Primary Advantage of functional departmentalizing is the control conferred to the various functional heads.

1. Peer discussion may be the best way to resolve it. 2. Managers should plan for coordination. 3. Coordination is a process. 4. Communication is essential to encourage coordination.

Fallet's Advice ( 5 things)

1. Formulate plans to make the management system more effective. 2. Support organizational climate within the management system. 3. Improve current managerial skills to fit current management needs.

Organizing department has 3 responsibilities

Responsibility Gap

Exists when certain tasks are not included in the responsibility are of any individual organization member.

Line Authority

Fundamental authority within an organization, reflects existing superior subordinate relationships.

1. Advisory or Counseling Rate 2. Service Role 3. Control Role

Rates that staff personnel perform ____, ____, &___.

Matrix Structure

Understood by first visualizing a more traditional form of organizational structure.

Management Responsibility Guide

Describes the various responsibility relationships that exist in the organization adn to summarize how the responsibilities of various managers relate.

Informal Structure

Defined as the patterns of relationships that develop because of the informal activities of organization members.

Department

Unique group of resources established by management to perform original tasks.

1. Dividing Job Activities 2. Clarifying the Job activities of Managers 3. Being responsible

3 areas related to responsibility

1. Similarity of Functions 2. Geographic continuity 3. Complexity of Functions 4. Coordination 5. Planning

Span of Management Factors (5)

1. The supervisor 2. Subordinates 3. Organization

Obstacles to the delegation process (3)

Functional Authority

Right to give orders within a segment of the organization in which this right is normally nonexistent.

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