GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Departmentalization, Organizational Architecture, Jack Welch

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Sui Sui

Document Summary

Organizing: process of arranging people and other resources to work together to accomplish a goal. Pin factory shows a process under one roof in which the unschooled worker, worth no access to its special machines, would be lucky to turn out a single pin a day. The structure of the organization in its official state. Organization chart: describes the arrangement of work positions within an organization: formal communication channels, type of work performed, major subunits (reporting to a common manager, division of work, levels of management. Social network analysis: identifies the informal structures and their embedded social relationships that are active in an organization. Functional structures: people with similar skills and performing similar tasks are grouped together into formal work. Advantages: economies of scale with efficient use of resources, task assignments consistent with expertise and training, high quality technical problem solving, in-depth training and skill development within functions, clear career paths within functions.