GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Knowledge Sharing, Red Tape, Human Resource Management

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Deborah De Lange

Document Summary

The process of arranging people and other resources to work together to accomplish a goal. The system of tasks, workflows, reporting relationships, and communication channels that link together the work of diverse individuals and groups: structure should fit the environment, organizational structure video. A diagram describing reporting relationships and the formal arrangement of work positions within an organization: the division of work, super visionary relationships, communication channels, major subunit, levels of management. Informal organization: a shadow organization made up of the unofficial, but often crucial, working relationships between organizational members, social network analysis strategy for investigating social structures through the use of network and graph theories. Advantages of informal structure: helping people accomplish their work, helping people overcome limits of the formal structure, allowing people to gain access to interpersonal network that satisfy needs for social interaction. Informal learning that takes place as people interact informally throughout the workday.