Matching Pairs Mgmt chp 15 pt 2Online version Mgmt chp 15 pt 2 by Ryan Brown 1 Centralized decision making 2 Organic organizations 3 Matrix structure 4 Decentralized decision making 5 Modular structure 6 Contingency approach to organization design 7 Hollow structure 8 Functional structure 9 Virtual organization 10 Divisional structure 11 Organizational design 12 Mechanistic organizations organization identifies partners with the needed talents and negotiates an agreement in which the participants typically work in separate facilities, linked by technology as they work toward a common goal organization identifies core competencies and outsources other activities such as manufacturing, order taking and shipping groups together activities related to outputs type of product, customer, or geography Rigid bureaucracies with strict rules, narrowly defined tasks, and top-down communication. The structures of accountability and responsibility used to develop and implement strategies, and the human resource practices and information and business processes that activate those structures combines functional and divisional chains of command to form a grid with two command structures key decisions are made by top management important decisions are made by middle- and lower-level managers organizations tend to be more effective when they are structured to fit the demands of the situation Flexible networks of multitalented individuals who perform a variety of tasks Outsources parts of a product instead of processes groups people according to the business functions they perform manufacturing, marketing, finance