ORGS 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Organizational Architecture

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 2010
• Professor: Masoud Zarei

Document Summary

Strategic design perspective sees organizations as social systems that are constructed to achieve strategic goals, or in the language of business today, to deliver on the organization"s strategy. Efficiency involves accomplishing goals with the least possible resource. Effectiveness deals with ensuring the goals are accomplished at a level for the organization"s success. Key strategic questions whose answers shape organization design: Which activities should be inside the boundaries of the organization and which outside? . Or should an organization outsource on insource the activities? . Strategic design sees information as the key resource of the organization. Basic element of organization design is often seen as the task: the smallest unit of the activities that need to be performed if the organization is to realize its strategic goals. Level of routinization (extent to which the activity can be specified and programmed. ) Task interdependence at its simplest varies from varies from low to high.