Business Chapter 7 & 8

a group of two or more people working together to achieve a common set of goals

• Grapevine

• Authority

• Organization

• Corporate Culture

a diagram that represents the positions and relationships within an organization

• Chain of Command

• Organization chart

• Departmentalization

• Network Structure

The line of authority that extends from the highest to the lowest levels of an organization

• Task Force

• Chain of command

• Job Specialization

• Departmentalization

structuring the tasks and activities required to accomplish a firm’s objectives into specific jobs so as to foster productivity and employee satisfaction

• job rotation

• job specialization

• job design

• departmentalization

the separation of all organizational activities into distinct tasks and the assignment of different tasks to different people

• task authority

• job specialization

• departmentalization

• line structure

the systematic shifting of employees from one job to another

• responsibility

• job rotation

• organizational height

• informal group

the process of grouping jobs into manageable units

• departmentalization

• departmentalization by function

• responsibility

• line structure

grouping jobs that relate to the same organizational activity

• departmentalization by product

• decentralized organization

• span of management (or span of control)

• departmentalization by function

grouping activities related to a particular product or service

• departmentalization by function

• departmentalization by product

• delegation

• centralized organization

grouping activities according to the defined geographic area in which they are performed

• network structure

• line structure

• departmentalization by location

• informal group