Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Salmon, Ebay, Decision-Making
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16 Nov 2011
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Organization: System of consciously coordinated activities of 2 or more people.
Organizational structure: How work is organized. Four factors: coordination of effort,
division of labor, common goal, hierarchy of authority.
Unity of command: historical belief each employee should report to
Simple Structure – Mintzberg
-Not elaborate
-Few support staffers
-Loose division of labor
-Little to no techno structure
-Small managerial hierarchy.
-Strategic apex key.
-Organic operating core
Machine
•Work is very standardized
oPeople have to fit work
•Very highly specialized
•Routine operating tasks
•Very formalized procedures in operating core
•Tons of rules and regulations
•Formal communication
•Reliant on functional areas
•Decision making is centralized
•Big decision between line and staff
•Techno structure is key parr structure
•Ex: GM
Professional
•Hires highly trained specialists professionals for operating core.
Division
•Standardized output
•Key part middle
•Indoctrination into mindset/culture of division managers
•Diversification of product
•Coordinating output between strategic apex and operating core
•Markets can be relatively simple
•Ex: Proctor and Gamble