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Management quiz 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Functional Structure | Groups people with similar skills who preform similar tasks |
| Cross Structure | Brings together members from different functional departments |
| Basic Principles of Management | Planning, Organizing, Controlling, Leading |
| Empowerment | Gives people freedom to do their job as they think best |
| Organizational Chart | Describes the arrangement of work positions within a team or organization |
| Mission | A clear and loft sense of why we exist |
| Delegation | Is the process of entrusting work to others |
| Horizontal Structures | Are designed to tap the power of technology, teams, collaboration, and networks |
| How Horizontal Structures work | They form team within and across functions, and staff them with embers whose talent match tasks |
| Centralized Organization | Top Management keeps the power to make most decisions |
| Decentralized Organization | Top Management allows lower level to make many decisions |
| Organic Designs | Are adaptive, Using decentralized and Horizontal structures |
| Mechanistic Design | Are Beaurucratic, using centralized and vertical structures |
| Verticals | Are the reporting relationships in the organizations Hierarchy of authority |
| Process of Innovations | Results in better way of doing things |
| Product inovations | Results in new or improved goods & services |
| What topics rule in an entrepreneurial culture | Flexibility & Creative rule, Authority goes with ideas, change & growth valued, emphasis of entrepreneurship |
| Entrepreneurial Cultures emphasize | Change, growth, creativity, competition |
| Kurt Lewin Described change as a 3 part process | Unfreezing, Refreezing, Freezing (Changing) |
| Unfreezing | Is the Phase during which a situation is prepared for change |
| Refreezing | The phase which change is stabilized |
| Freezing(Chaning) | The phase which change actually takes place |
| Business model Innovations | Results in ways for firms to make money |
| Business Model Innovations Examples | Netflix turned movie rental into a subscription business eBay earns revenues from users of its marketplace Google thrives on advertising revenues driven by ever-expanding Web technologies |
| All the sources of resistance to change | Fear of unknown, disrupted habits, loss of confidence, loss of control, poor timing, work overload, loss of face, lack of purpose |
| Characteristics of highly innovative organizations | Strategy include innovation, cultures values statements, structure support innovation, staffing builds talent |
| Values Statement | Express what the company stands for, its core priorities, the value its employees embody, what it product contributes to the world |
| Examples of values Statements | Whole foods- “Creating ongoing win-win partnerships with our suppliers” UnderArmour-”Innovation, Inspiration, Reliability, and Integrity” |
| 4 stages of new employees | socialization, coaching, training, employee development |
| Socialization | Is the process through which new members learn the culture of a team or organization |
| Coaching | Assigns an experienced person to provide performance advice to a new hire |
| Training | efforts to help employees acquire job-related knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors, with the goal of applying these on the job |
| Employee development | ongoing education to improve knowledge and skills from present & future jobs |
| Core culture | Is found in the underlying values of the organization |
| An organic design is most associated with | Success in dynamic & changing environments |
| Difference between value statement & Mission statement | Mission statement communicates purpose of organization where as values statements reflects core principles & ethics in the organization |