Types of organisation
Across
- 2. A person with responsibility for one or more people within a business is often called this. (7)
- 5. This can be long where there is a tall organisational structure or a wide span of control.(5,2,13)
- 7. This is a series of levels within a business where each level has responsibility and authority over the levels below (9)
- 8. This type of organisational structure has lots of layers of management.(4)
- 10. This describes the process of removing a layer of management from the hierarchy, often to reduce costs.(10)
Down
- 1. In this type of organisation, the authority to make decisions is delegated down the chain of command. Authority might for example be passed to the manager of a branch of the business in a different location.(13)
- 3. This describes the number of subordinates that a manager has authority over (4,2,7)
- 4. In this type of organisation, the key decisions on what a business does and what it plans to do in the future are made by a small group of people (usually the senior managers) in one location. (11)
- 6. This type of organisational structure has few layers of management.(4)
- 9. Where a manager passes authority to make decisions to a subordinate, this is known as __________ (10)