MGT 304 Study Guide - Adhocracy, Costco, Grafting

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 304
• Professor: George Williamson

Document Summary

Vertical specialization (chain of command): a hierarchal division of labor that distributes formal authority and establishes where and how critical decisions are to be made. Span of control: number of people who report directly to you. Line units: work groups that do the actual job (ex. Staff units: assist the line units (ex. Three levels of organization control: policy: broad, procedures: guidelines, rules: very specific. Horizontal specialization: (functional departmentation): establishes specific work units or groups within an organization. Departmentations: functional departments: grouped individuals by skill, knowledge and action (most frequent, divisional departments: grouped by products, territories, services, clients or legal entities. Mechanistic bureaucracy: up and down, rigid, command of control (ex. Adhocracy: small version of organic, flexible, changes all the time, decentralized, extreme horizontal specialization: adho for this . Conglomerate: different unrelated companies, but report to a bigger organization. Mimicry: coping something that already works (costco, copied by sam"s club and bjs)