GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Boss, Strategic Management, Work Unit

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

Document Summary

Organizing: the process of arranging people and other resources to work together to accomplish a goal. Organization structure: a system of tasks, reporting relationships, and communication linkages. Organization chart: describes the arrangements of work potions within an organization. Formal structure: the of cial structure of the organization. By reading an organization chart, you can learn the basics of an organization"s formal structure including: Division of work: position and titles show who work responsibilities. Supervisory relationships: lines show who reports to whom. Major subunits: potions reporting to a common manager are shown. Levels of management: vertical layers of management are shown. Informal structure: the set of unof cial relationships among an organizations members. Social network analysis: identi es the informal structures and their embedded social relationships that are active in an organization. Departmentalization: the process of grouping people and jobs into work units. Functional structures: groups together people with similar skills who perform similar tasks.