UGBA 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Departmentalization, Railways Act 1921, Hierarchical Organization

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Business Administration Undergraduate Program
• Course: UGBA 10
• Professor: John Briginshaw

Document Summary

Depends on purpose, mission, strategy, competition, size, stage of maturity. Match: what makes it easy to get the results you want. Power = level of the organization / number of layers. How jobs are grouped into logical units. Allows management to control critical parts of the business. By function focus on a function. Set the company values that guide employee behavior. Organizational structure, leadership, mission, goals, strategy, culture, management processes. Leaders make decisions to maximize the fit between opportunity and business results. Organizational structure focus on how to organize and deploy talent. Specialization is how narrowly you want to focus a person"s job. Grouping jobs together creates internal coordination and facilitates communication. Separating jobs increases communication and coordination problems silo. Silo means that people only think about issues and concerns that are most relevant to their own group and ignore or dismiss issues and concerns of people outside their group.