BU398 Study Guide - Final Guide: Association To Advance Collegiate Schools Of Business, Cengage Learning, Horizontal Integration
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It includes the design systems to ensure effective communication, coordination, and integration of effort across each position: it identifies the tasks and processes for each position within the organization. It identifies the grouping together of individuals into departments and of departments into the total organization: it designates formal reporting relationships, including the number of levels in the hierarchy and the span of control of managers and supervisors. Information should flow horizontally, but not vertically: information should flow vertically, but not horizontally, structure should fit the information requirements of the organization, it is not possible to give people too much information. When problems and decisions are funneled to top levels of the hierarchy for resolution, ____ is being used: centralized decision making, functional structure, horizontal linkage, full-time integration. Which of the following is not a structural device used to achieve vertical linkages: rules and plans, task forces, vertical information systems, hierarchical referral.
