Leadership vocabulary

8. a diagram that shows the structure of an organization and the relationships and relative ranks of its parts and positions/jobs.
9. people with similar skills are pooled for work assignments
11. A horizontal structure provides employees with the tools and skills needed. Cross function (from department to department)
12. manager seeks employee input before he or she makes the final decision.
13. with few or no levels of intervening management between staff and managers.
14. The organization is grouped by areas of specialty within different functional areas (e.g., finance, marketing, and engineering)
16. the spread of power away from the center to local branches.
17. The continuous chain of authority that links the most associate to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and vice versa.
19. The informal organization is the interlocking social structure that governs how people work together in practice.
20. simple organizational structure in which each person reports to one supervisor.
21. the power or right to give orders or make decisions.
22. manager shares the decision making with the employees.

1. the act of managing employees in a business.
2. gives orders to employees.
3. responsibility to someone or for some activity.
4. that leaves little discretion for interpretation.
5. every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity.
6. power comes from the top, work can become very fragmented and communication is lost.
7. and creative thinking is encouraged.
10. organizational arrangements include individuals of different departments and groups, on the same organizational level and involve coordination and consultation.
13. formal organization is a fixed set of rules of intra-organization procedures and structures; it is usually set out in writing, with a
15. let it be or hands-off (the term is French for let it be or hands-off)
18. the act of consolidating power under a central control.