Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture : Chapter 14 Organizational Structure

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Victoria Digby

Document Summary

-- organization: system of consciously coordinated activities of 2 or more people. -- organization structure: design factors of how work is organized (coordination of effort, common goal, division of labor, and hierarchy of authority). -- unity of command: a historical belief that each employee should report to a single manager. -- a box-and-line illustration showing chain of formal authority and division of labor. -- the structure is more and more complex as time goes by. -- span of control (number of people directly report to a manager) Best is one to four employees report to one manager. (tight) If more than 4 employees report to one manager, it s really hard to control. common ways to organize --- departmentation (functional) Vp of marketing, vp of accounting vp of production vp of human services. -- product departmentation (house & home products division, personal & beauty products. Division, health & wellness products division, baby and family products division)