ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Animat, Outsourcing, Amphiprioninae

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

Document Summary

Elements of organizational structure: division of labour/work specialization. Division of labour refers to the degree to which organizational tasks are subdivided into separate jobs: centralization. In decentralized decision-making, authority is spread to the lower levels: span of control. The number of employees reporting to a supervisor: formalization. While employees have specialized skills, pixar promotes collaboration rather job specialization. Cartoon editing takes place simultaneously with the storyboard process. As the script is mapped out into scenes that are then drawn and animated, the cartoons and individual scenes are fine tuned. For example, nemo, the loveable clownfish, may have stripes added or removed from his scaly orange skin. This collaborative editing is comparable to the way programmers optimize features in a piece of software. Differences between live-action films and animated ones lie in their procedural organization. Freedom is given to each group to work directly with one another and avoid going through higher- ups.