Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Organizational Culture, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction

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

Document Summary

Organizaional structure: system of task, reporing, and authority relaionships within which work of organizaion is done. Basic purpose is to order and coordinate acions of employees to achieve organizaional goals. Coordinate eforts and maximize outputs: people can accomplish more by working together, work must be coordinated properly if potenial gains of collecive efort are to be realized. Deines how parts of organizaion it together. Organizaional chart: drawing that represents every job in organizaion and formal reporing relaionships: shows all people, posiions, reporing relaionships, and lines of formal communicaion (cid:1) Incompaible w/ new technologies that required highly skilled workers. Chain of command: speciies who reports to whom in organizaion and signiies formal authority relaionships. Span of control: how many employees each manager in organizaion has responsibly. March 28, 2016: deines size of work groups, wide or narrow. Narrow maintain close control and stay in contact w/ daily operaions. Wide close control not possible: producivity higher under moderate span of control.