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Management - Ch. 6 Organizing for Action

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Span of Control   The number of subordinates who report directly to an executive or supervisor.  
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Delegation   The assignment of new or additional responsibilities to a subordinate.  
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Responsibility   The assignment of a task that an employee is supposed to carry out.  
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Accountability   The expectation that employees will perform a job, take corrective action when necessary, and report upward on the status and quality of their performance.  
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Centralized Organization   An organization in which high- level executives make most decisions and pass them to lower levels for implementation.  
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Decentralized Organization   An organization in which lower-level managers make important decisions.  
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Line Departments   Units that deal directly with the organization’s primary goods and services.  
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Staff Departments   Units that support line departments.  
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Departmentalization   Subdividing an organizations into smaller subunits.  
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Functional Organization   Departmentalization around specialized activities such as production, marketing, and human resources.  
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Divisional Organization   Departmentalization that groups units around products, customers, or geographic regions.  
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Matrix Organization   An organization composed of dual reporting relationships in which some managers report to two supervisors – a functional manager and a divisional manager.  
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Utility-of –Command Principle   A structure in which each worker reports to one boss, who in turn reports to one boss.  
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Learning Organization   An organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. *Knowledge transfer*  
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Total Quality Management (TQM)   An integrative approach to management that supports the attainment of customer satisfaction through a wide variety of tools and techniques that result in high-quality goods and services. *notion of continuous improvement*  
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