Intro to Organizational Structures

_____ 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

The basis by which jobs are grouped together is termed _____.

• bureaucracy

• specialization

• centralization

• departmentalization

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 unbroken line of authority that extends from the top of the organization to the lowest echelon and clarifies who reports to whom is termed _____.

• a. chain of command

• b. authority

• c. span of control.

• d. unity of command

The right inherent in a managerial position to give orders and expect orders to be obeyed is termed _____.

• . chain of command

• authority

• power

• unity of command

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

The primary characteristics of the _____ structure are that it breaks down departmental barriers and decentralizes decision making to the level of the work team.

• a. virtual

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• b. team

• c. boundaryless

• d. organizational

26. The more that lower-level personnel provide input or are actually given the discretion to make decisions, the more _____ there is within an organization.

• centralization

• disempowerment

• work specialization

• decentralization