MGM400H5 Chapter Notes -Technostructure, Blue-Collar Worker, Organizational Culture
Document Summary
This chapter contain some frameworks for descrbing different organizations as to provide insight into the effects organizations are likely to have on people working in them. Two main concepts are used: organizational structure and organizational culuture. The chapter shows the nature of the links between them. The final part focuses on cultures that lead to the kind of jobs that most people find psychologically satisfying. Dissatisfying psychological enviornments tend to be lacking in culutural qualities which lead to health and well-being, to positive attitudes towards the organizations, and hence to motivation for achieving the organization"s goals. Organizations are established to achieve outcomes: to produce things, to provide services, to govern ppl, to invent things, to sell things. In attempting to reach such goals, the managers who shape organizations try to create social structures that will help in their attainment. The creation of rules and procedural system to ensure that ppl carry out activities reliably and efficiently.
