ODB Chapter 4

The process by which an organization allocates people and resources to organizational tasks and establishes the task and authority relationships that allow the organization to achieve its goals.

• Division of labor

• Differentiation

• Organizational role

• Organizational design

As organizations grow in size, the differentiate into different kinds of functions. Which one below is not these functions?

• Support

• Adaptive

• Promote

• Maintenance

Organizational design challenges is about balancing between...

• Horizontal vs. vertical

• Differentiation vs. integration

• Centralization vs. decentralization

• Standardization vs. mutual adjustment

Promote flexibility so people initiate change and can adapt quickly to changing conditions

• Organic structures

• Mechanistic structures

Designed to induce people to behave in predictable, accountable ways

• Organic structures

• Mechanistic structures

A management approach in which the design of an organization’s structure is tailored to the sources of

uncertainty facing an organization.

• Mechanistic approach

• Organic approach

• Environmental uncertainty approach

• Contingency approach

Which one IS NOT the characteristic of mechanistic structure

• Simple struture

• High differentiation

• Low integration

• Centralized decision making

• Standardization

Which one IS NOT the characteristic of organic structure

• Simple struture

• High differentiation

• High integration

• Decentralized decision making

• Mutual adjustment