Organizational Structure

Process of identifying duties and responsibilities related to a job is classified as

• Job specification

• Job description

• Job analysis

• Job mobility

The structure in an organization which allows instructions to be passed down from senior management to lower levels of management is called

• chain of command

• span of control

• decentralization

• delegation

A manager having direct authority over people, decision and resources within the hierarchy of an organization is called a

• line manager

• staff manager

• senior manager

• junior manager

Which of the following is an advantage of short chain of command?

• Span of control tends to be narrower

• Communication tends to be inaccurate

• Communication between the management and staff is slow

• There are fewer layers of management to share responsibilities

1. Fahad’s web security business has expanded; he has assigned some tasks to his new employees. This has enabled Fahad to find more time to do the administrative work which he considers should be left to him. This helped the organization to make progress and the employees’ satisfaction level was also increased.

The above action of Fahad can be categorised as

• delegation of responsibilities

• enhancement of job specification

• management of chains of commands

• decentralization of management structures

Centralization in management structure refers to the

• geographic dispersion of an organization

• team decision-making in an organization

• devolution of power to the lower tier of an organization

• degree to which decision-making is concentrated at a single point in an organization

• chain of command

• wider span of control

• line managers

• narrow span of control

With reference to span of control and chain of command, the given organisational chart of business ‘A’ has

• wider span of control and longer chain of command as compared to business B

• wider span of control and shorter chain of command as compared to business B

• narrow span of control and longer chain of command as compared to business B

• narrow span of control and shorter chain of command as compared to business B

A type of decentralisation in which the authority is divided between groups of related products under a single brand is known as

• federal decentralisation

• regional decentralisation

• functional decentralisation

• project based decentralisation

All of the following are advantages of having an organisational chart in a business EXCEPT that it

• depicts the conflicts that exist among employees

• shows the position and status of an employee in the organisation

• provides the channel of flow of information within the organisation

• gives a sense of belonging to employees as they represent one department