COLLAB 2N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pearson Education
27 Oct 2015
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7 components of the external environment: general economy (recession, peak, unemployment?, customers (orgs must be sensitive to customer demands, suppliers (surplus/shortages, competitors (direct vs. indirect, social/political factors (changing legislations, social trends etc. , technology. Cell 2: moderately low perceived uncertainty: small # of factors, factors and components are similar, factors and components remain the, large # of factors, factors not similar, factors remain the same same over time. Basic dimensions of technology: perrow"s routineness, craft technologies: fairly standard inputs and outputs, routine technologies: also standard, exceptions do occur mechanistic, non routine technologies: deal with exceptional inputs and outputs organic, engineering technologies: many inputs/outputs, can be standardized, thompson"s interdependence. : org must engage in considerable interplay: woodward"s production process, studied the relationship between technology and structure, following classification from top to bottom, reflects both increasing smoothness of production, less and less personal intervention is necessary as machines do the work, classifications, units production of single units or small batches.
