ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

What do you call a system that outlines how certain activities are directed in order to achieve the goals of an organization?

• Institutional Structure

• Organizational Structure

• Educational Organization

• Institutional Organization

This is the dimension of organizational structure that create roles for individuals that enable them to specialize in performing a limited number of tasks.

• Work Specialization

• Departmentalization

• Span of Control

• Centralization

This means bringing together of individuals into groups so that common or related tasks can be coordinated.

• Work Specialization

• Departmentalization

• Span of Control

• Centralization

This is the reporting trail that exists between the upper and lower levels of an organization.

• Decentralization

• Chain of Command

• Span of Control

• Formalization

This refers to the number of staff which any manager can directly supervise without becoming inefficient or ineffective.

• Decentralization

• Chain of Command

• Span of Control

• Span of Control

_____ defines how job tasks are formally divided, grouped, and coordinated.

• Organizational structure

• work speacialization

• Departmentalization

• Organizational behavior

Organizational structure has six key elements. Which of the following is not one of these elements?

• departmentalization

• work specialization

• formalization

• authority

Work specialization is the same as _____.

• a. departmentalization

• b. division of labor

• c. decentralization

• d. job grouping

A plant manager who organizes the plant by separating engineering, accounting, manufacturing, personnel, and purchasing into departments is practicing _____ departmentalization.

• a. target customer

• b. product

• c. functional

• d. geographic

The _____ refers to the number of subordinates that a manager directs.

• A. span of control

• B. unity of command

• C. chain of command

• D. decentralization principle