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1)This type of authority comes from formal reporting relationships

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1)This type of authority comes from formal reporting relationships. It is typically held by managers who supervise departments directly related to an organization’s primary goal and mission.  

2. This refers to overhauling an organization’s structure and workflow to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

3. Companies with this structure outsource most of their work and keep only a very small centralized staff to serve as a hub for the entire organization.   

4. This person’s primary job is facilitating work among employees and between departments to ensure that specific organizational goals are accomplished on time and within budget.

5. A continuum that ranks organizations on the extent to which they use complicated machinery and software instead of people to produce their final products.

6. An organizational - ----- - is the visual representation of an organization’s structure.

7. This occurs when a manager gives an employee a task and allows the employee to control how the work is done.

8. An organization with this structure has few layers of managers.

9. This refers to the process of concentrating power and authority at the top levels of an organization.

10. This is a mechanistic organizational structure in which workers are grouped by job specialty. Departments might include sales, operations, research and development, and accounting.

11. An example would be bringing together people from engineering, sales, and marketing to create a new product. The team disbands after the product is created.

12. Commonly used in the steel industry, this production process is handled entirely by machines. Humans are only involved to monitor work and fix equipment.

13. An organizational ------------- is the visual representation of an organization’s structure.

14. This part of organizational design identifies reporting relationships and how they flow from the top to the bottom of the organization.

15. An organization with this structure has many layers of managers, each of whom supervises a small number of people.

16. This refers to integrating the work of employees and departments to make the organization more effective as a whole.

17. Commonly used by consulting and other project-driven companies, this structure has employees report to two managers at once: one who supervises a product, and one who supervises a function.

18. Banks use this when they cluster tellers, new account clerks, personal financial advisers, and loan officers together and ask them to work as an ongoing group to serve an entire range of customer needs.

19. Focused on meeting transitory customer needs, companies using this technology cannot store their products in inventory.

20. People accept this when they make public statements about the success or failure of their work responsibilities. An example is Harry Truman’s famous statement: “The buck stops here.”

21. Based on the number of direct reports a manager has, this differentiates between organizations with tall and flat structures.

22. This production process is used when companies manufacture unique products created for a specific customer. Tailoring custom-made clothing is one example.

23. Common in manufacturing, this design allows companies to retain a small staff that assembles final products from components produced by outside suppliers.

24. In a publishing company, this group could consist of software developers, editors, and marketing employees who meet periodically to solve digital production and distribution problems.

25. This production process is used when companies manufacture large amounts of standardized products.

26. This refers to the process of putting employees into groups so they can better complete organizational tasks.

27. This is an organic organizational structure in which groups of employees are given high levels of authority to create products, solve problems, and manage the organization.

28. An example would be bringing together people from engineering, sales, and marketing to create a new product. The team disbands after the product is created.