Management and Organizational Studies 3385A/B Lecture 3: Lecture 3

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3385A/B
• Professor: Gail Robertson

Document Summary

Young entrepreneur, have never failed, very little experience ( collect cost ) Organizational structure: formal relationships among jobs in an organization: relationship between people and tasks must be such a way that companies can be efficient. Job design: the process of organizing work into tasks required for the job. Job: group of related activities/duties for one or more employees. Position: collection of tasks assigned to multiple. Evolution of jobs and job design; considerations: job specialization and engineering (improving and simplification = injuries, behavioural considerations (enlargement, rotation, enrichment, team-based = help ^, ergonomic aspects (physical needs of worker)