ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hierarchical Organization, Railways Act 1921, Organizational Architecture

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Jenna Sweiss

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It was not until after the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)"s did organizations realize that the (cid:271)ureaucratic structure needed to be redesigned: this bureaucratic structure also has its weaknesses such as when the environment changes. Increasing competition: demands for better products and services. Improved customer service: more sophisticated processes of generating the product, however, it is suggested that stability of the bureaucracies impedes any chance of innovation. Job specialization, the narrow division of labour, standardization, and rules are not suitable for a changing environment: 1. Flatter organization: tall organizations have narrow spans of control and flat organizations have wider spans of control, the most pervasive phenomenon to hit the organizational landscape since the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)"s has (cid:271)een downsizing, this involved flattening organizational hierarchy. September 26, 2018: this flattening accomplishes many things: Information sharing is also a big part of team-based approach: more common today than in bureaucratic organizations.