BCOR 370 Exam 2 Houghton questions || || || || || ||
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Organizational Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔framework of jobs and || || || || || || || || ||
departments that directs the behavior of individuals and groups towards
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achieving the organization's objectives
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Work Specialization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔subdivision of tasks into
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individual jobs ||
Delegating - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Process of transferring authority and
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responsibility to another member of the health care team to complete a task,
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while retaining accountability
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Centralized - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔authority to make a decision at the
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top level
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Decentralization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔authority to make decisions at || || || || || || || || ||
the lower level
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Span of Control - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔number of employees that report
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to a given manager
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, Chain of Command (unity of command) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔single
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flow of authority through organization
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Functional Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔CEO, marketing,
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production, HR, IT, customer service; grouping of people that have similar
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skills/functions
Product Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔have different departments
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based on the type of products they have
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Geographic product - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔organize according to
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geographic areas ||
Matrix Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔combining diff types of
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structures; advantage is that you can fine tune structure that fits your
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business mission, easy to add and expand to, cost-effective (assign people to
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multiple departments), disadvantage is that it violates the chain of command
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because someone could have two bosses
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Organic organization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔collaboration (both vertical
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and horizontal), adaptable duties, few rules, informal communication,
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decentralized decision authority, flatter structures (org. is like a living thing;
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able to change depending on circumstances/situations
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Mechanistic organization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔rigid hierarchical
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relationships, fixed duties, many rules, formalized communication, channels,
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with answers ||
Organizational Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔framework of jobs and || || || || || || || || ||
departments that directs the behavior of individuals and groups towards
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achieving the organization's objectives
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Work Specialization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔subdivision of tasks into
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individual jobs ||
Delegating - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Process of transferring authority and
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responsibility to another member of the health care team to complete a task,
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while retaining accountability
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Centralized - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔authority to make a decision at the
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top level
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Decentralization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔authority to make decisions at || || || || || || || || ||
the lower level
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Span of Control - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔number of employees that report
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to a given manager
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, Chain of Command (unity of command) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔single
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flow of authority through organization
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Functional Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔CEO, marketing,
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production, HR, IT, customer service; grouping of people that have similar
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skills/functions
Product Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔have different departments
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based on the type of products they have
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Geographic product - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔organize according to
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geographic areas ||
Matrix Structure - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔combining diff types of
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structures; advantage is that you can fine tune structure that fits your
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business mission, easy to add and expand to, cost-effective (assign people to
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multiple departments), disadvantage is that it violates the chain of command
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because someone could have two bosses
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Organic organization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔collaboration (both vertical
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and horizontal), adaptable duties, few rules, informal communication,
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decentralized decision authority, flatter structures (org. is like a living thing;
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able to change depending on circumstances/situations
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Mechanistic organization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔rigid hierarchical
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relationships, fixed duties, many rules, formalized communication, channels,
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