ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Outsourcing, Chinese Whispers

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

Document Summary

Social: all organizations have one thing in common- people, human interaction among organization is a must. Interactive with environment: obtains input from natural resources and creates output for public, it can in form of raw material, technology, financial capital, human resources. Structure based: needed to ensure work allocation and coordination, all work needs to be distributed properly to correct departments. Organizations that function like a well oiled machine. Adopted from the classical school of management and the scientific methods of management. Social entities, that are comprised of connected and dependent parts that share a common life or goal. Contain of combo of elements that have different uses and operations, but are integrated with other parts, in order to keep the structure alive. Adopted from the behavioral school of management. Open system: organizations that are integrated with the environment and dependent on the natural and external resources the environment provides.