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

Is undertaken to facilitate the implementation of plans.

The arrangement or relationship of positions within an organization.

The result of the organizing process.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is depicted in the organization chart.

The planned structure.

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

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

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

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

Describes personnel activities and company policies.

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

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

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.

Is vulnerable to expediency, manipulation, and opportunism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Concern for environment or love for classical music.

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

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

Which is derived from unions, fraternities, etc.

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

A requisite for effective organizing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The department that negotiates and secures contracts for the firm.

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

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

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

Those individuals providing needed staff services for the whole organization.

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

Are very useful most especially to engineering and manufacturing firms.

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.

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

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

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