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Organization of Buss
Part 1
Term | Definition |
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Job Design | The process by which managers decide how to divide tasks onto specific jobs |
Divisional Structure | An organizational structure composed of separate business units within which are the functions that work together to produce a specific product for a specific customer |
Feedback | The extent to which actually doing a job provides a worker with clear and direct information about how well he or she has performed the job. |
Functional Structure | An organizational structure composed of all the departments that an organization requires to produce its goods or services |
Global Geographic Structure | An organizational structure in which each region of a country or area of the world is served by a self-contained division |
Organizing | Structuring working relationships in a way that allows organizational members to work together to achieve organizational goal; one of the four principals of management |
Task Variety | The number of new or unexpected problems or situations that a person or function encounters in performing tasks or jobs |
Task Significance | The degree to which a worker feels his or her job is meaningful because of its effect on people inside the organization, such as coworkers, or on people outside the organization such as customers |
Behavior Control—Management by Objectives | A goal-setting process in which a manager and each of his or her subordinates negotiate specific goals and objectives for the subordinate to achieve and then periodically evaluate the extent to which the subordinate is achieving those goals |
Benchmarking | The process of comparing one company’s performance on specific dimensions with the performance of other high-performing organizations |
Bureaucratic Control (system) | Control of behavior by means of a comprehensive system of rules and standard operating procedures |
Clan Control | The control exerted on individuals and groups in an organization by shared values, norms, standards of behavior and expectations |