The Basis for Grouping Positions into Departments and Departments into the Total

question 173

True/False

The basis for grouping positions into departments and departments into the total organization is referred to as departmentalization.

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Definitions:

Greatest Happiness

A principle stating that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote overall happiness, identifying happiness with the maximum pleasure and minimum pain.

Rule Consequentialism

An ethical theory that suggests the moral correctness of an action depends on the consequences of following rules that are designed to promote the greatest good.

Classical Utilitarians

Philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill who advocated for utilitarianism, a moral theory that actions are right if they result in the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.

Act Consequentialists

Ethical theorists who evaluate the morality of an action based solely on the outcomes or consequences it produces.