ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Organizational Chart, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Structure
16 Mar 2016
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An organizaions structure can have a signiicant impact on its inancial performance and ability to coordinate itself. How the organizaion as a whole afects the aitudes and behaviours of its members. Organizaional structure: formally dictates how jobs and tasks are divided an coordinated between individuals and groups within the company. Organizaional chart: a drawing that represents every job in the organizaion and the formal reporing relaionships between those jobs. Five key elements describe how work tasks, authority relaionships, and decision making responsibiliies are organized within the company. The degree to which tasks in an organizaion are divided into separate jobs. Organizaions may also struggle with employee job saisfacion when they make jobs highly specialized: high specialized tasks reduce variety for an employee. Answer to the quesion who reports to whom, and signiies formal authority relaionships. The chain of command can be seen as the speciic low of authority down through the levels of an organizaion"s structure.
