ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Outsourcing, Learning Organization, Contingency Theory

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: kristal bautista

Document Summary

Social entities: people who run it, people who work there. Goal orientation: sense of direction and purpose. Interact with the environment: sustainability, new people, raw materials. Inputs: physical resources: plan, capital, materials, human resources: people, knowledge, technology. Process: transformation to goods or services generated by the organization. Outputs: goods or services generated metaphors: used to describe organizations. Most common one: a political system; different ranges/levels of authority, a sports team; everyone working together as a team to accomplish a goal. Organic environment is very flat and easy to deliver information, for smaller organizations, cross- hierarchy teams. Mechanistic; report to manager or direct supervisor, very difficult and complex, for larger organizations. Organic; dependent on research development, a lot more creative. To adapt and adjust to trends in our society. Facebook also has a matrix type function: geographic divisions; trends and needs in different areas are different, product based division: innovative. Strategy: what your company is trying to accomplish, why it exists.