Exam 16: Organizational Goals and Structures

Process controls focus on desired targets and allow managers to use their own methods for reaching defined targets.

In a very practical sense,systems goals represent short-term organizational characteristics that higher-level managers wish to promote.

Wider spans of control are expected when tasks are complex,when subordinates are inexperienced or poorly trained,or when tasks call for team effort.

The number of individuals reporting to a supervisor is called the span of control.

Organizations do not operate in a social vacuum,but rather they reflect the needs and desires of the societies in which they operate.

__________ is the degree to which the authority to make decisions is delegated to lower levels in an organization's hierarchy.

__________ units assist line units,but the focus of their actions is on linking the firm to the environment and buffering internal operations.

__________ methods of coordination produce synergy by stressing consistency and standardization so that individual pieces fit together.

Firms often use a(n)__________ bureaucracy in pursuing a low-cost leadership strategy.

__________ is often referred to as the process of departmentation.

__________ groups individuals and resources by products,territories,services,clients,or legal entities.

By contributing to the larger society,organizations gain legitimacy and a social right to operate,but not more discretion for their nonsocietal goals and operating practices.

__________ is the set of mechanisms used to keep actions or outputs within predetermined limits.

Beyond substituting for direct management supervision,formalization is often used to simplify jobs.

Describe the mechanistic structure and the organic structure. Suggested

The two basic types of bureaucracies are __________ and __________.

Direct contact between organization members is a(n)__________ method of coordination.

Beyond substituting for direct management supervision,__________ is often used to simplify jobs.

One useful distinction between line and staff units is the nature of a unit's relationship in the chain of command.

Standardization involves the creation of guidelines so that similar work activities are repeatedly performed in a similar fashion.