COMM 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Valve Corporation, Flat Organization, Decision-Making

• School: U of S
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 105
• Professor: Aloysius Newenham- Kahindi

Document Summary

Alignment between a firm"s vision and its hr. Develop competency & efficiency (manage work and time, empowerment) Manage and control products & services (power relations) https://youtube. com/watch?v=lvyxvtb3f1y. Valve corporation has a flat, organic organizational structure to leverage the creative and entrepreneurial potential of its 300 employees. An efficient system to coordinate and manage people: An example of open organizational system in managing patterns of relationships in a complex industry sector (high risk) Investment and empowerment in hr as its top priority. (leading to hr self-organizing , multi- skill creations) Consider mars model and social identity theory: organizational structure defined: Division of labour and patterns of coordination, communication, workflow, and formal power that direct organizational activities. Relates to many ob topics (job design, teams, power) Definition: refers to subdivision of work into separate jobs assigned to different people (horizontal vs. vertical division of labor). Division of labour may lead to: results in specialization, separate jobs for different people, improves work efficiency.