Terms for study
Centralization
committee
organization
Contingency
Approach
cross-functional
teams
decentralization
delegation
departmentalization
empowerment
environment
information
technology (IT)
line
organization
matrix
organization
1
Pamela
S. Lewis, Stephen H. Goodman, Patricia M Fandt, Joseph F.
Michlitsch, Management:
Challenges
for Tomorrow’s Leaders,
Fifth Edition (Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2007), p. 468.
2
Daft,
ibid., p. 321.
3
Margaret
May, “Preparing Organizations to Manage the Future,” Management
Accounting,
London, February 1997, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 28-32.
4
Mattel
Seeks to Placate China With Apology,” The
Wall Street Journal,
September 22, 2007, Section A, pp. 1 and 7.
5
Recent
News Events Should Have Executives Reviewing Priorities,” The
Wall Street Journal, August
27, 2007, Section В,
p.
1.
