Types of organisation

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Across
  1. 2. A person with responsibility for one or more people within a business is often called this. (7)
  2. 5. This can be long where there is a tall organisational structure or a wide span of control.(5,2,13)
  3. 7. This is a series of levels within a business where each level has responsibility and authority over the levels below (9)
  4. 8. This type of organisational structure has lots of layers of management.(4)
  5. 10. This describes the process of removing a layer of management from the hierarchy, often to reduce costs.(10)
Down
  1. 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)
  2. 3. This describes the number of subordinates that a manager has authority over (4,2,7)
  3. 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)
  4. 6. This type of organisational structure has few layers of management.(4)
  5. 9. Where a manager passes authority to make decisions to a subordinate, this is known as __________ (10)