ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Outsourcing, Contingency Theory

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Krtisle Bautista

Document Summary

Division of jobs into simple, repetitive tasks, with high degree of job specialization. This is the specialization of individuals rather than the specialization of jobs (lawyers, doctors, Top-down approach employees at lower levels do are not involved in decision making process. Team-based approach, employees at lower levels involved in decision making. How many employees does a manager have responsibilities for: level of administration. Tall (narrow) = lots of layers of management. Rules & regulations determine how work is performed. Flexibility to be creative and able to use individual discretion. A trait of organizational structure: integrated. Benefits: cost savings are significant, great alternative for entrepreneurs, fast way to develop and market new products, fast and flexible. Risks: losing control, lack of employee loyalty, potential sacrifice of competitive learning opportunities. Learning organization is defined as (cid:862)a(cid:374) orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) that fa(cid:272)ilitates the lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of all its (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)iousl(cid:455) tra(cid:374)sfor(cid:373)s itself a(cid:374)d its (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t. (cid:863)