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Horizontal Specialization {Ans: a division of labor that establishes specific work units or groups within an organization.}Span Of Control {Ans: the number of individuals reporting to a supervisor.}Exploration {Ans: calls for the organization and its managers to stress freedom and radical thinking and opens the firm to big changes-or what some call radical innovations.}Centralization {Ans: the degree to which the authority to make decisions is restricted to higher levels of management.}Bureaucracies {Ans: rely on a division of labor, hierarchical control, promotion by merit with career opportunities for employees, and administration by rule.}Simple Design {Ans: s a configuration involving one or two ways of specializing individuals and units.}Process Innovations {Ans: introduce into operations new and better ways of doing things.}Divisional Departmentation {Ans: groups individuals together by products, territories, services, clients, or legal entities.}Organic Type of Bureaucracy {Ans: emphasizes horizontal specialization, use of personal coordination devices, and professional-based controls.}Control {Ans: the set of mechanisms used to keep action or outputs within predetermined limits.}Standardization {Ans: the allowable actions in a job or series of jobs.}Multicultural Organization {Ans: a firm that values diversity but systematically works to block the transfer of societally