Fayol’s guidelines, 177f
Feasibility analysis, 471
Feedback
behavior modification, 332
verbal/nonverbal, 275
The Fifth Discipline (Senge), 458
Five Forces Model, 158, 159f
Fixed-position layout, 425
Flextime, 330, 335
advantages/disadvantages of, 331, 331t
Focus, 164
Forcing, 254–255
Forecasting
sales forecasts, 117–121
types of, 117
Formal groups, 344
acceptance stage, 348
command groups, 345
committees, 345–347
communication and decision-making stage, 348
example, 345f
group control stage, 348
group solidarity stage, 348
stages of, 348–349
task groups, 345
work teams, 345, 348
Formal organizational communications, 283
downward, 278
lateral, 278
listening, 281–282
patterns of, 278
promoting, 281
serial transmission, 279
upward, 278
Formal structure, 181
Franchising, 79
Functional authority, 205, 212
Functional similarity method, 200