SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Structuration Theory, Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions, Social Capital
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Organizational diversity: size, e. g. fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) is a fe(cid:449) people, people"s repu(cid:271)li(cid:272) of (cid:272)hi(cid:374)a is (cid:373)illio(cid:374)s, type/sector, multiplex, people belong to many organizations school, work, family, recreation, religion, etc, structure, capital, e. g. for profit corporation vs. non-for profit ngo. Institutional context: differing goals corporation may focus on profit, university may focus on discovering and imparting knowledge, global/contextual. Look at individuals in organization: organizational level. Look at structural features: ecological level, macro impact on other organizations. Strategies and goals: choices about markets, clients, competition, tactics, output goals, typology, prospectors = create innovative products and services, defenders = develop efficiencies in internal processes, analysers = combine approaches. Work & technology: work = tasks organization needs to accomplish goals, tech = inputs into outputs, materials, people, knowledge, symbolic, e. g. car materials, skills, machinery, people, processes. Formal organization: codification of roles and relations, human resources. Job design: organization structure (hierarchy) i. e. how people supposed to do their jobs and how jobs relate to each other.
