ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Organizational Chart

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2336
• Professor: Catherine Elliot

Document Summary

Organizational structure- how jobs and tasks are divided and coordinated between individuals and groups within the company. Organizational chart- represents every job in the organization and the formal reporting relationships between those jobs (chain of command) Efficient, rigid, predictable, and standardized organizations that thrive in stable environments (ex. Flexible, adaptive, outward-focused organizations that thrive in dynamic environments (ex. high tech companies) Organizational design: definition- the process of creating or changing the structure of the organization, needs to fit with, external business environment- stable environment vs. Dynamic: strategy- organization"s goals and objectives and approach to market, technology- how organization transforms inputs and outputs, size- number of employees. Simple structure: perhaps the most common form of organizational design because there are more small organizations than large ones, organizational form that features one person as the central decision-making figure. Bureaucratic structure: an organizational form that exhibits many of the facets of the mechanistic organization.