ITM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Organizational Culture, Information System, Decision-Making

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Reza Sedaghat

Document Summary

An organized body of people with a particular purpose, especially a business, society, association, etc. Technical definition: its stable, formal social structure that takes resources form environment and processes them to produce outputs. Features of an organization: routines and business processes, organizational politics, organizational culture, divergent viewpoints lead to political struggle, competition, and conflict, encompasses set of assumptions that define goal and product, what products the organization should produce, how and where it should be produced, may be powerful unifying force as well as restraint on change. For whom the products should be produced: organizational environments, organizations and environments have a reciprocal relationship, organizations are open to, and dependent on, the social and physical environment, organizations can influence their environments, environments generally change faster than organizations. Five basic kinds of organizational structure: the kinds of information systems often reflects the type of organizational structure, other organizational features, goals, coercive, utilitarian, normative, etc, constituencies, leadership styles, tasks.