COMM 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Session 9, Communication Problems

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 1010
• Professor: Carolan McLarney

Document Summary

Size, technology, and changes in environmental circumstances; structure continually changes: the building blocks of organizational structure, definition: refers to how many people are supervised by a individual manager. Influential factors: employee"s ability, managerial skills; the nature of task; Span of control the extent of interrelated task: types, wide: interrelated, jobs are routine, narrow: unrelated, not routine. Tall and flat organization: tall, few organizational levels, wide span of control; Flat: many organizational levels, narrow span of control, decentralized organization. : delegating authority to lower levels: advantage, reduce information overload; increase motivation and accountability; : decision made by upper level: advantage, easier coordination, decision fitted to broad org. objectives, exercise of strong leadership in crisis, faster response. Dividing up people and talks into structure and divisions. Too many middle managers: basic organizational structure, simple structure: Definition: the various units in the organization are formed based on the key functions that must be carried out to reach organizational goals.