Across
- 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.
Down
- 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.