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| The reporting structure and division of labor in an organization. |
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| An aspect of the organization's internal environment created by job specialization and the division of labor. |
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| The degree to which differentiated work units work together and coordinate their efforts. |
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| The assignment of different tasks to different people or groups. |
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| A process in which different individuals and units perform different tasks. |
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| The procedures that link the various parts of an organization for the purpose of achieving the organization's overall mission. |
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| The legitimate right to make decisions and to tell other people what to do. |
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| The authority levels of the organizational pyramid. |
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| The role of a corporation's executive staff and board or directors in ensuring that in the firm's activities meet the goals of the firm's stakeholders. |
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| Subdivisions of an organization. |
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| The number of subordinates who report directly to an executive or supervisor. |
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| The assignment of new or additional responsibilities to a subordinate. |
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| The assignment of a task that an employee is suppose to carry out. |
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| The expectation that employees will perform a job, take corrective action when necessary, and report upward on the status and quality of their performance. |
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| An organization in which high-level executives make most decisions and pass them down to lower levels for implementation. |
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| Decentralized Organization |
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| An organization in which lower-level managers make important decisions. |
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| Units that deal directly with the organization's primary goods and services. |
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| Units that support line departments. |
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| Subdividing an organization into smaller subunits. |
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| Departmentalization around specialized activities such as production, marketing, and human resources. |
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| Departmentalization that groups units around products, customers, or geographic regions. |
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| An organization composed of dual reporting, relationships in which some managers report to two superiors--a functional manager and a divisional manager. |
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| Unity-of-Command-Principle |
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| A structure in which each worker reports to one boss who in turn reports to one boss. |
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| A collection of independent mostly single-function firms that collaborate on a good or service. |
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| Temporary arrangements among partners that can be assembled and reassembled to adapt to the environment. |
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| A person who assembles and coordinates participants in a network. |
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| Establishing common routines and procedures that apply uniformly to everyone. |
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| The presence of rules and regulations governing how people in the organization interact. |
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| Interdependent units are required to meet deadlines and objectives that contribute to a common goal. |
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| Coordination by Mutual Adjustment |
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| Units interact with one another to make accommodations to achieve flexible coordination. |
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