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a system of tasks, reporting relationships, and communication linkages

identifies the informal structures and their embedded social relationships that are active in an organization

the process of grouping together people and jobs into work units

groups together people with similar skills who preform similar tasks

combines functional and divisional approaches to emphasize project or program teams

brings together memebers from different functional departments

uses IT to link with networks of outside suppliers and service contractors

organizations join together in partnership to pursure an area of mutual interest

uses information technologies to operate as a shifting network of alliances

the process of configuring organizations to meet environmental challenges

top management keeps the power to make most decisions

top management allows lower levels to help make many decisions

the process of entrusting work to others

bureaucratic, using a centralized and vertical structure

are adaptive, using a decentralized and horizontal structure

splits one job between two people

involves using IT to work at home or outside the office

a system of chared beliefs and values guiding behavior

are clear, well defined, and widely shared among member

the process through which new memebers learn the cilture of an organization

what you see and hear when walking around an organization

found in the underlaying values of the organization

beliefs and values shared by organization memebers. make the mission statement affective

uses symbols to establish and maintain a desired organizational culture

the process of taking a new idea and putting it into practice

• knowledge accunulation
• incubation
• discovery
• implementation and evaluation

result in better ways of doing things

result in new or improved goods or services

result in ways for firms to make moeny

the process of turning ideas into innovations that reduce the carbon footprint of an organization or its products

turns ideas into economic vaule added. must be rare, valuable, hard to reproduce

tries to change the behavior of another person or social system

results in a major and comprehensice redirection of the organization

bends and adjusts existing ways to improve preformance

the process of attracting, developing, and maintaining a high-quality workforce

the economic vaule of people with job-relevant abilites, knowledge, ideas, energies, and commitment

occurs when someone is denied a job or job assignment for non-job-related reasons

the right to employment and advancement without regar to race, sec. religion, color, or national origin

an effort to give preference in employment to women and minority group memebers

analyzes staffing needs and identifies actions to fill those

a set of activities designed to attract a qualifed pool of job applicants

choosing whom to hire from a pool of qualified job applicants

occurs as an ecperenienced person offers performance advice to less -experienced person

assigns early career employees as proeges to senior ones

process of formally evauating performance and providing feedback to a job holder

uses specific descriptions of actual behaviors to rate various levels of performance

includes in appraisal process superiors, subordinates, peers, and even customers

awards pay increases in proportion to performance contributions

plans provide one-time payments based on performance accomplishments

distributes to employees a proportion of net profits earned by the organization

plans allow employees to share in cost saving or productvity gains realized by their efforts

are nonmonetarty forms of compensation such as health insurance and retirement plans

the process of negotiating, administering, and interpreting a labor contract