Organizing for the Business

What Is Organizational Structure?

• Upper management retains authority

• Product, process, functional, customer, or geographic

• Clarify structure and show employees where they fit into a firm’s operations

• The specification of the jobs to be done within an organization and the ways in which those jobs relate to one another

Organizational Charts are used to_____, except___

• Product, process, functional, customer, or geographic

• Clarify structure

• Show the chain of command, or reporting relationships, within a company.

• Show employees where they fit into a firm’s operations

The first step in developing the structure of any business, large or small, involves three activities, except____

• Establishment of a Decision-Making Hierarchy

• Departmentalization

• Span of Control

• Specialization

_____________ dividing an organization to offer products and meet needs for identifiable customer groups

• Functional Departmentalization

• Product Departmentalization

• Customer Departmentalization

• Process Departmentalization

______________________dividing an organization according to the areas of the country or the world served by a business

• Geographic Departmentalization

• Customer Departmentalization

• Functional Departmentalization

• Product Departmentalization

Decentralized Organization organization in which_________

• most decision making authority is held by upper-level management

• a great deal of decision making authority is delegated to levels of management at points below the top

• according to the areas of the country or the world served by a business

• to offer products and meet needs for identifiable customer groups

The key ingredients in establishing the decision-making hierarchy is_____, except____

• Decentralization

• Centralization

• Specialization

• Delegation

As you can see in picture, what types of organizational structures beside?

• Staff Authority

• Span of Control

• Flat Organizations

• Tall Organization

Type of decision-making authority of Mc Donald's to maintain standardization is_____

• Centralized organization

• Decentralized organization

• Delegation

• Authority

The organizational form applied in the Nike company is _______

• Team organizations

• Virtual organizations

• Learning organizations

• Flat Organizations