BUS 2090 Lecture 11: Unit 11- Organizational Structure, Environment and Technology
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Organizational structure: the manner in which an organization divides its labour into speci c tasks and achieves coordination among these tasks. Labour must be divided because individuals have physical and intellectual limitations. Vertical division of labour - concerned with appointing authority for planning and decisions making. Product departmentation: departments are formed on the basis of a particular product, product line or service. Matrix departmentation: employees remain members of a functional department while also reporting to a product of project manager. Geographic departmentation: relatively self-contained units deliver an organizations products or services in a speci c geographic territory. Customer departmentation: relatively self-contained units deliver an organizations products or services to specigic customer groups. Hybrid departmentation: a structure based on some mixture of the above. Coordination: a process of facilitating timing, communication and feedback among. Integration: the process of attaining coordination across differentiated departments.
