ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Organizational Chart
18 Dec 2015
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How jobs and tasks are divided and coordinated between individuals. Represents every job in the organization and the formal reporting and groups within the company relationship between these jobs. 5 elements of organizational structure: work specialization (aka division of labor, chain of command (aka hierarchy of authority, span of control, centralization, formalization. Organizational design: the process of creating or changing the structure of an organization: external business environment. Dynamic: strategy: organizations goals and objectives and approach to market, technology: how the organization transforms inputs into outputs, size: number of employees. Small organization is 100 (48% of canada) Simple structure: perhaps the most common form or organizational design because there are more small organizations than large ones. Bureaucratic structure: an organizational form that exhibits man of the facets of the mechanistic organization. Multi-divisional structures: employees are grouped into divisions around products, geographic regions, or clients the company produces location where the company does business.
