Intro to Organizational Charts

Organizational chart is

• a picture on the wall of the business

• a diagrammatic representation of the structure and reporting relationships in the organization

• a chain of command

The relationship which shows who reports to whom in an organization is referred to as:

• Chain of command

• unity of command

• span of control

Work specialization is the same as _____.

• a. departmentalization

• b. division of labor

• c. decentralization

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

• bureaucracy

• specialization

• centralization

• departmentalization

Which one of the following is not one of the primary ways to group jobs?

• a. skill

• b. customer

• c. function

• d. product

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

In an organization that has high centralization, _____.

• the corporate headquarters is located centrally to branch offices

• all top level officials are located within the same geographic area

• action can be taken more quickly to solve problems

• top managers make all the decisions and lower level managers merely carry out directions

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

The span of control of an individual is the number of people that he or she manages or supervises directly.

• True

• False