CAREER

The progress and actions taken by a person throughout a lifetime, especially those related to that person’s occupations.

A career is often composed of the jobs held, titles earned and work accomplished over a long period of time, rather than just referring to one position.

While employees in some cultures and economies stay with one job during their career, there is an increasing trend to employees changing jobs more frequently. For example, an individual’s career could involve being a lawyer, though the individual could work for several different firms and in several different areas of law over a lifetime.

organizational structure

The typically hierarchical arrangement of lines of authority, communications, rights and duties of an organization.

Organizational structure determines how the roles, power and responsibilities are assigned, controlled, and coordinated, and how information flows between the different levels of management.

A structure depends on the organization’s objectives and strategy.

In a centralized structure, the top layer of management has most of the decision making power and has tight control over departments and divisions.

In a decentralized structure, the decision making power is distributed and the departments and divisions may have different degrees of independence.

An organizational chart illustrates the organizational structure.

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