Convenience

departmentalization
. When
organizations are small, the owner-manager can personally oversee everyone who works there.
As an organization grows, however, personally supervising all the employees becomes more and
more difficult for the owner-manager. Consequently, new managerial positions are created to
supervise the work of others. Employees are not assigned to particular managers randomly.
Rather, jobs are grouped according to some plan. The logic embodied in such a plan is the basis
for all departmentalization.
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job enrichment
An alternative to job
specialization that
attempts to increase
both the number of
tasks a worker does
and the control the
worker has over
the job
job characteristics
approach
An alternative to job
specialization that
suggests that jobs
should be diagnosed
and improved along
five core dimensions,
taking into account
both the work
system and
employee
preferences
work teams
An alternative to job
specialization that
allows an entire
group to design the
work system it will
use to perform an
interrelated set of
tasks
departmentalization
The process of
grouping jobs
according to some
logical arrangement
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