ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Organizational Architecture, Competitive Learning, Outsourcing

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Len Karakowsky

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Lecture 4: establishing the structure of a business. It is cumulative, so don"t forget everything from before the midterm! Work specialization: social specialization, networking, something you are trained in: a nurse, specialized in nursing, your role definition and your responsibilities, functional specialization, division of jobs into simple, repetitive tasks. Centralization: how decisions are made, hierarchy, decentralization, how decisions are made, centralization, made at senior level, authority. 129: we increase span of control, no longer a pyramid, but instead, it is dispersed. Formalization: gives more flexibility, which includes more responses. What type of structure do you think is suitable for facebook: refer to the article: facebook, when your friends are worth a billion! pg. The fundamental rethinking and radical redesigning of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in measures of performance (cost, quality, service, speed): it is the business model, these are critical success factors today. Networking: building relationships across organizations and industries.