Ch 7 Vocabulary Quiz

What is the simplest organizational structure?

• Line structure

• Line and staff structure

• Matrix structure

• High-level structure

What is the grouping of jobs into work units?

• Specialization

• Departmentalization

• Functionality

• Standard Division

The principle that employees who accept a task and the authority to execute it are accountable to a superior for the outcome

• Empowerment

• Responsibility

• Specialization

• Decentralized

An informal communication channel, separate from the formal and official communication channels of the administration

• E-mail

• Restructure

• Management span

• Grapevine

A small group whose members have complementary skills, a common purpose, goals, and approach, and hold each other accountable.

• Team

• Group

• Task Force

• Crew

a structure that forms teams from different departments, thus creating two or more intersecting lines of authority; also called project management structure

• line and team

• line structure

• matrix structure

• line matrix structure

Values, beliefs, traditions, philosophies, rules, and behavior models shared by a company. This ensures that the members of the organization: share values, observe common rules, and share approaches to problem-solving

• organizational structure

• organizational culture

• organizational holiday

• organizational statute

Which is not a type of departmentalization

• product

• span of control

• Geographic

• Functional

Project teams are task force-like groups that typically conduct their operation and have full control over a specific work project

• True

• False

small groups of workers gathered from across the organization to solve specific problems of quality, productivity, or service

• task force

• line team

• project teams

• quality assurance teams