The grouping of related jobs, activities, or processes into major organizational subunits.

The linking of activities in the organization that serves to achieve a common goal or objective.

When members of an organization spontaneously form a group with friendship as a principal reason for belonging.

The result of the organizing process.

A specialist's right to oversee lower level personnel involved in that specialty, regardless of where the personnel are in the organization.

Which are derived from unions, cultural societies, fraternities, etc.

The number of people who report directly to a given manager.

Is vulnerable to expediency, manipulation, and opportunism.

Represents the deliberate attempt to establish patterned relationships among components that will meet the objectives effectively.

Includes all those that provide specialized skills in support of line departments.

With its feature of operating by divisions, is appropriate for a large corporation with many product lines in several related industries.

Is given to a person or a work group to make decisions related to their expertise even if these decisions concern other departments.

The planned structure.

Is usually formed to provide the necessary line-up of expertise needed to achieve certain objectives when a certain concern, like product development, is under consideration.

A structure with two (or more) channels of command, two lines of budget authority, and two sources of performance and reward.

Is not a part of the formal organization and it does not have a formal performance purpose.

Require the formation of formal groups which will be assigned to perform specific tasks aimed at achieving organizational objectives.

Are very effective in smaller firms, especially single-business firms where key activities revolve around well-defined skills and areas of specialization.

Which gives people the chance to share ideas, opinions, and feelings.

Was designed to keep employees in a central pool and to allocate them to various projects in the firm according to the length of time they were needed.

An organizational structure in which each employee reports to both a functional or division manager and to a project or group manager.

A staff specialist's right to give advice to a superior.

A diagram of the organization's official positions and formal lines of authority.

Describes personnel activities and company policies.

Is given to most budget officers of organizations, as well as other officers.

Includes those which perform strategic planning, labor relations, research, accounting, and personnel.

A relatively permanent committee that deals with issues on an ongoing basis.

Are oftentimes very useful in the accomplishment of major tasks, especially if these tasks conform with the expectations of the members of the informal group.

Those individuals providing needed staff services for the whole organization.

Which is derived from unions, fraternities, etc.

Provides written descriptions of authority relationships, details the functions of major organizational units, and describes job procedures.

A manager's right to tell subordinates what to do and then see that they do it.

Is often staffed by top executives from marketing, production, research, engineering, and finance, who work part-time to evaluate and approve product ideas.

Is a formal group of persons formed for a specific purpose.

One created for a short-term purpose and have a limited life.

Concern for environment or love for classical music.

What is depicted in the organization chart.

Refers to the organization of a company by divisions that brings together all those involved with a certain type of product or customer.

The structure that details lines of responsibilites, authority, and position.

Is undertaken to facilitate the implementation of plans.

A requisite for effective organizing.

The structuring of resources and activities to accomplish objectives in an efficient and effective manner.

The department that negotiates and secures contracts for the firm.

The arrangement or relationship of positions within an organization.

The process of assigning various degrees of decision-making authority to subordinates.

Those individuals assigned to a specific manager to provide needed staff services.

Performs tasks that reflect the organization's primary goal and mission.

Are very useful most especially to engineering and manufacturing firms.

Is a form of departmentalization in which everyone engaged in one functional activity, such as engineering or marketing, is grouped into one unit.

Determining the scope of work and how it is combined in a job.

Which attract individuals like: consumer society, sports club, etc.