Myers - Organizational Structures

2. The number of employees a manager directly supervises; also called span of management.
4. Departmentalization that is based on the goods or services produced or sold by the organizational unit.
7. An organizational structure that combines functional and product departmentalization by bringing together people from different functional areas of the organization to work on a special project.
9. An organizational structure in which authority and responsibility are held by a group rather than an individual.
12. A visual representation of the structured relationships among tasks and the people given the authority to do those tasks.
14. The process of dividing work into separate jobs and assigning tasks to workers.
15. The degree to which formal authority is concentrated in one area or level of an organization (top management makes decisions)
16. The process of grouping jobs together so that similar or associated tasks and activities can be coordinated.

1. The line of authority that extends from one level of an organization’s hierarchy to the next, from top to bottom, and makes clear who reports to whom.
3. Departmentalization that is based on the production process used by the organizational unit.
5. Legitimate power, granted by the organization and acknowledged by employees.
6. - Members from the same organizational level but from different functional areas.
8. The degree to which tasks are subdivided into smaller jobs.
10. The degree to which group members want to stay in the group and tend to resist outside influences.
11. An organizational structure with direct, clear lines of authority and communication flowing from the top managers downward.
13. The process of pushing decision-making authority down the organizational hierarchy.