GMS 724 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Information System

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 724
• Professor: Howard Lin

Document Summary

Organizing is the process of creating the structure, systems and culture needed to implement the company"s strategy. Specify the structure of roles, relationships and responsibilities. Promote shared understanding of the company"s culture. Formal arrangement of jobs within a company that specifies roles, responsibilities and relationships. Centralization: degree to which high-level managers make strategic decisions and delegate them to lower levels for implementation. Decentralization: degree to which lower level managers make and implement strategic decisions. Specifies the set of tasks to accomplish. Divides the tasks among sbus, divisions, departments, committees, teams, jobs and individuals. Functional, area or divisional, matrix or mixed. Groups people based on common expertise and resources. Is popular among companies with narrow product lines. Divides employees employees based on the product, consumer agent or geographical location. Gives functional, product, and geographic groups a common focus. Has dual reporting relationships rather than a single line of command. Combines the elements of the functional, area and product structures.