important decisions are made by higher-level managers
centralized authority
authority is decentralized, there are fewer rules and procedures, and networks of employees are encouraged to cooperate and respond quickly to unexpected tasks
organic organization
refers to the number of people reporting directly to a given manager
span of control (management)
the organization becomes very bureaucratic, large, and mechanistic
maturity stage
group activities around defined regional location
geographic divisions
the coordination of individual efforts into a group or organization-wide effort
coordinated effort
is the tendency of the parts of an organization to disperse and fragment
differentiation
people with similar occupational specialties are put together in formal groups
functional structure
has an internal focus and values flexibility rather than stability and control
clan culture
sixth type of organization structure, whereby a central core is linked to outside independent firms by computer connections, which are used to operate as if all were a single organization
