MDSA01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Socalled, Organizational Culture, Side Effect
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Study guide (chapter 3: organizational analysis activities directed towards specific goals. Organizations a system or network of ordered relationships and coordinated. Structure describes the underlying framework that shapes an organization over time and includes three key elements hierarchy differentiation and specialization and formalization. Hierarchy the first structural elements of organizations refers to the specific. Differentiation and specialization the second structural element account for the. Process where structure describes the underlying framework of an organization. Communicative practices organizational culture emerges out of communicative practices such as performance narratives textual management and technology communicative practices are dynamic contingent and transactional meaning that they are not static universal or bounded but complex improvisational and continuous. Performance- performances are expressive ( productive and purposeful) displays ( both product and process) carry symbolic significance (meaning and implication) in a particular context. Four an important types of organizational performance are ritual, sociality, politics, and enculturation.
