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Unit 3.4 - topic 16 - Organisational Structure - GCSE Business Studies
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What is a disadvantage of making Decentralised decisions?
Decisions are up to someone who knows local customers
Decisions can be slow
Increased control and standardisation
Loss of control
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What is a benefit of making
centralised decisions
?
Decisions are up to someone who knows their local customers
Increased control and standardisation
Decisions can be slow
Loss of control
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Who makes Centralised decisions?
regional employees
Senior managers
Subordinates
The tax payer
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Who makes Decentralised decisions?
The tax payer
Regional employees
Senior managers
Subordinates
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What is Span of Control?
Assistance and advice provided by a company to customers
Where instructions are passed from one person to another
The amount of subordinates a line manager is responsible for
The amount of subordinates a line manager is responsible for
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What is a drawback of a business having a wide span of control?
Less levels of communication for decisions to pass through
High quality staff should exist
Less managers are required and wages are saved
Managers will have less time for planning
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What is
empowerment
?
Regional employees
Less levels of communication for decisions to pass through
Workers in a heirarchy who work under a senior worker
Giving employees power to make decisions.
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What is Chain of Command?
Assistance and advice provided by a company to customers
The amount of subordinates a line manager is responsible for
Management of large amounts of money
Where instructions are passed from one person to another
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What is a Hierarchy?
Structure of different levels of authority
When a business downsizes
Cost of borrowing varies across different sources
Management of large amounts of money
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What is Organisation?
Workers in a heirarchy who work under a senior worker
Assistance and advice provided by a company to customers
Order of command
The way a business is structured to achieve objectives
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What is a disadvantage to having a tall organisational structure?
Higher variable costs
You have to increase the height of your premises
Communication occurs quicker
More layers = more staff = higher costs
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What is a Subordinate?
Passing down authority for work to another worker below
A type of business organisation
Workers in a heirarchy working under a senior worker
Line Manager
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When a business expands, chain of command _____
Stays the same
Increases
Decreases
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What is a way in which a business can NOT be organised?
Product divisions
Regional divisons
Functional areas such as marketing or finance
Delayering
