Organizations are composed of internal and external environments.
Proactive motives include the desire to escape from trade barriers and other government
restrictions.
When a mission is formalized in writing and communicated to all organizational
members, it becomes the organization’s mission statement.
A centralized decision-making process is more characteristic of mechanistic structures.
Organizations have a social responsibility to promote equality in the workforce.
Leadership involves gaining commitments from organizational members to achieve
management’s goals and properly equipping them to do so.
A promotion is a reassignment to a lower rank in an organization’s hierarchy.
Boundary spanners look for developments that do not influence plans, forecasts,
decisions, and organizations.
Generally speaking, the fewer decisions made at lower levels, the more decentralized
the organization.
Horizontal teams are comprised of several layers of management.