Business Administration 2295F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Organizational Structure, Dishwasher, Dow Corning

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 2295F/G
• Professor: Victoria Digby

Document Summary

Organizational structure- formally dictates how jobs and tasks are divided and coordinated between individuals and groups within the company. Organizational chart- a drawing that represents every job in the organization and the formal reporting relationships between those jobs. It helps organizational members and outsiders understand and comprehend how work is structured within the company. ** companies" organizational charts get more complex as they grow larger. Work specialization- the degree to which tasks in an organization are divided into separate jobs. Trade-off among productivity, exibility, and worker motivation. Ex. employee might perform only a single task. Highly specialized jobs can undermine employees" exibility. Spending all their time performing specialized tasks well, they fail to update or practise other skills. Problematic in smaller rms in which employees have to be more versatile. Struggle with employee job satisfaction when they make jobs highly specialized (variety) Chain of command- speci es who reports to whom; signi es formal authority relationships.