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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CH. 6 ORGANIZING EXAM
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Question 1: Geographic Departmentalization
Answer:
dividing an organization according to the areas of the country or the world served by a business
Question 2: Centralized Organization
Answer:
most decision making authority is held by upper-level managers
Question 3: Line Department
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department directly linked to the production and sales of a specific product
Question 4: Tall Organizational Structure
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characteristic of centralized companies with multiple layers of management
Question 5: Customer Departmentalization
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dividing an organization to offer products and meet needs of identifiable customer groups
Question 6: Work Team
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groups of operating employees who are empowered to plan and organize their own work and to perform that work with a minimum of supervision
Question 7: Departmentalization
Answer:
process of grouping jobs in logical units
Question 8: Responsibility (delegation)
Answer:
duty to perform an assigned task
Question 9: Intrapreneuring
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process of creating and maintaining the innovation and flexibility of a small-business environment within the confines of a large organization
Question 10: Flat Organizational Structure
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characteristic of decentralized companies with relatively few layers of management
Question 11: Virtual Organization
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little or no functional structure; exists only in response to its own needs
Question 12: Team Organization
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people float from project to project as dictated by their skills and the demands of those projects
Question 13: Process Departmentalization
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dividing an organization according to production processes used to create a good or service
Question 14: Accountability (delegation)
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obligation employees have to their manager for the successful completion of an assigned task
Question 15: Authority (delegation)
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power to make the decisions necessary to complete a task
Question 16: Organizational Structure
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the specification of the jobs to be done within an organization and the ways in which those jobs relate to one another
Question 17: Matrix Structure
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combination of two separate structures; highly flexible
Question 18: Decentralized Organization
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organization in which a great deal of authority is delegated to levels of management at points below the top
Question 19: Divisional Structure
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organizational structure in which corporate divisions operate as autonomous businesses under the larger corporate umbrella
Question 20: International Organizational Structure
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approaches to organizational structure developed in response to the need to manufacture, purchase, and sell in global markets
Question 21: Staff Members
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advisers and counselors who help line departments in making decisions but who do not have the authority to make final decisions
Question 22: Division
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department that resembles a separate business in that it produces and markets its own products
Question 23: Job Specialization
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the process of identifying the specific jobs that need to be done and designating the people who will perform them
Question 24: Line Authority
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organizational structure in which authority flows in a direct chain of command from the top of the company to the bottom
Question 25: Delegation
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process through which a manager allocates work to subordinates
Question 26: Committee and Team Authority
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authority granted to committees or teams involved in a firms daily operations
Question 27: Staff Authority
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authority based on expertise that usually involves counseling and advising line managers
Question 28: Chain of Command
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reporting relationships within the company