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Organizing in Engineering Management
Organizing in Engineering Management
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What involves the process of allocating and arranging the resources of the company such as employees, facilities and equipment, and finance, to achieve the goals of the company?
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Organizing
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What organizational process refers to establishing objectives and plans as well as list the tasks to be accomplished and the employees required to perform the activities reach organizational goals?
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Create Job Design
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What organizational process refers to classifying and grouping the necessary work activities into manageable units (functional, product, matrix, etc.)
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Departmentation
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What organizational process refers to assigning the defined work activities to specific individuals/groups?
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Delegation of Authority
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What organizational process refers to assigning authority to respective individuals/groups to carry out the assigned tasks?
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Span of Control
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What organizational process refers to the definition of hierarchy of relationships within the organization using the organization chart?
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Chain of Control
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What involves determining what work is needed to accomplish the goal, assigning those tasks to individuals, and arranging those individuals in a decision-making framework (organizational structure)?
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Organizing Process
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What does PDCA Cycle stand for?
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Plan, Do, Check, Act
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What are the specific activities needed to implement the organizing process?
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What are reasons for organizing within a company?
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achieves specialization through division of work, clarifies the authority of each manager, and clarifies duties and responsibilities of every job
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What does a good organizational structure ensure?
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employees can carry out the work assigned to them effectively
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What does the use of an organizational chart can help visualize?
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the relationships between levels of the organizational structure
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What aspect of organization involves having a good understanding of the type, scope, and magnitude of work to be carried out in the future?
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Definition of Work
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What aspect of organization is the process of subdividing the work under consideration into manageable units?
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Division of Work
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What aspect of organization is concerned with allocating the subdivided work to groups and individuals who are specialized in carrying out the task or function?
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Division of Labor and Specialization
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What aspect of organization refers to "each employee must be clear about their specific responsibilities and to whom they report, ensuring activities are directed toward specified goals unified by one accepted plan and one leader"?
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Unity of Command and Direction
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What aspect of organization refers to "each organizational unit and individual must have clearly defined authority that delineates the scope and type of work to be executed"?
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Responsibility and Authority
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What aspect of organization is the unbroken line of authority that links all individuals to successively higher authority levels, providing a clear command structure?
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Chain of Command
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What shows the activities of the organization by level, identify different types of work performed, highlight subdivisions, and provide information about management levels and authority lines?
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Organizational Charts
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What are limitations of organizational charts?
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inability to show workflow, informal organization, inflexibility, and inability to display factors such as dual accountability and resource sharing
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What organization structure consist of the upper management having the authority to make important decisions, capital-intensive, requires close coordination of activities, and emphasizes confidentiality and top-level strategy?
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Centralized Organization Structure
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What organizational structure consists of distributed authority among lower levels, labor-intensive, allows for noncritical resource sharing, and requires quick reaction times to external business environments?
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Decentralized Organization Structure
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What refers to an organizational structure deliberately created by management for achieving the objectives of enterprise and is a network of official authority responsibility relationships and communication follows?
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Formal Organization
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What refers to the pattern of activity interactions and human relationship which emerge spontaneously due to social and psychological forces operating at the workplace and arises naturally on the basis of friendship or some common interest which may not be related to work?
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Informal Organization
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What organizational structure is made for the purpose of achieving objectives of the organization, is quite large, stable, long-lasting, governed by formal rules and regulations, communication normally flows through the prescribed chain of command, leadership is vested in managers, and management can abolish the groups at any time?
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Formal Organization
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What organizational structure is make for the purpose of psychological and social factors, small in size, selective, very unstable in nature, no authority (all members are equal), governed by norms, beliefs and values, leadership is not associated with managership, and management has no control over these groups?
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Informal Organization
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What does RACI stand for?
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Responsible Accountable Consult and Inform
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What matrix is often referred to as a linear responsibility chart (LRC) or Responsible Accountable Consult and Inform (RACI) and identifies participants and the degree of activity performance or decision-making?
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Responsibility Matrix
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What letter of RACI refers to the obligation to do the task (can be team oriented)?
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Responsible
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What letter of RACI refers to ensuring that the task is completed (assigned to a single person)?
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Accountable