ORGS 2010 Lecture : ORGS 2010 2.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 2010
• Professor: Eleanor Westney

Document Summary

Sees an organization as a system that has been deliberately constructed to achieve strategic goals. Fundamental concept: maximization of organizational efficiency and effectiveness: efficiency: accomplishing strategic goals with the least possible expenditure of resources, effectiveness: ensuring goals are accomplished to the standard necessary for the organization to succeed. Strategic design sees information as the key resource to the organization. Information processing and enhancing system: to achieve strategic goals, people need to share information, create it through cooperation, and direct it to those who can use it. Task: basic element of organization design: complexity - how complex the task is can vary, routinization - extent to which the activity can be specified and programmed. Strategic grouping: differentiation of clusters of activities, positions, and individuals into. Alignment mechanisms: the design must use this to ensure that people have the. Organizations are effective when the components are aligned with strategy and with each.