ADM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Informal Learning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 1300
• Professor: David Delcorde

Document Summary

Organizing: a process where people arrange things in order to work as a team in order to accomplish a task. Organization structure: tasks and reporting relationships that are linked to many individuals and groups. Informal structures: unofficial but critical relationships between members of a company. advantages : The process of organization and grouping people into positions to enhance coordination: functional, divisional, matrix. Functional: people with very similar skill levels and they are grouped together to perform a task. (work in their proper areas of expertise) Divisional: grouping people together who are working on the same task, product or project. Matrix: combination of functional and divisional structures to gain some sort of advantage and to minimize the possible disadvantages of both. (service industries, non-profit sector, manufacturing) Organizing and organization structures: traditional organization structures. Functional: divisional, matrix, horizontal organization structures, team structures, network structures, boundaryless structures.