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ORGANISATION MATRICIELLE [3 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2007-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Theory
  • Organization Planning
DEF

A design in which a project-type structure is superimposed on a functional structure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories de la gestion
  • Planification d'organisation

Spanish

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Record 2 1998-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Structure
CONT

The open networked organization is based on co-operative, multidisciplinary teams and businesses networked together across the enterprise. Rather than a rigid structure, it is a modular organizational architecture in which business teams operate as a network of ... client and server functions. Teams are both clients and servers for other teams, who are both internal and external to the organization. ... It is a model designed to encourage flexibility, innovation, entrepreneurship, and responsiveness.

OBS

a new form of corporate structure that is replacing the traditional hierarchical structure. (Based on TAPIT, 1993, p. 33.)

OBS

The new organization has many other names. ... Peter Drucker calls it the networked organization. For Rosabeth Moss Kanter, it's dancing elephants. For Peter Keen, it's the relational organization. For Tom Peters, it's life without hierarchy. For D. Quinn Mills, it's the cluster organization. Charles Savage calls it human networking.

Key term(s)
  • open networked organisation
  • relational organisation
  • cluster organisation
  • networked organisation
  • open-networked organization
  • open-networked organisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Structures de l'entreprise

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
  • Corporate Structure
  • Administrative Structures (Publ. Admin.)
DEF

An administrative practice of assigning line and staff supervisors and employees to perform their own special tasks or duties in a number of different functions or levels of responsibilities for the accomplishment of specific short or long-range programs or projects in an organization.

Key term(s)
  • matrix organisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
  • Structures de l'entreprise
  • Structures de l'administration publique
DEF

Mode de gestion selon lequel les cadres hiérarchiques et consultatifs ainsi que leurs employés sont affectés, pour des projets spécifiques ou à court terme, à des fonctions et à des niveaux de responsabilité différents.

Spanish

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