BUS-Z - Business BUS-Z 302 Lecture 7: summary_Chapter15

• School: IUPUI
• Department: BUS-Z - Business
• Course: BUS-Z - Business BUS-Z 302
• Professor: D A R R E L L E.B R O W N

Document Summary

Organizational structure formally dictates how jobs and tasks are divided and coordinated between individuals and groups within the company. Organizational chart represents every job in the organization and the formal reporting relationships between those jobs. Work specialization is the way in which tasks in an organization are divided into separate jobs. Chain of command who reports to whom? on and on Span of control represents how many employees he or she is responsible for in the organization. About from 10 to 15 employees per manager. Centralization most of the decision making happens by higher level. Formalization a company is high in formalization when there are many specific rules and procedures used to standardize behaviors and decisions: when considered in combination, the 5 dimensions of organizational structure create at least two types of firms: Mechanistic organizations are efficient, rigid, predictable, and standardized organizational that thrive in stable environments. Organic organizations are flexible, adaptive, outward-focused organizations that thrive in dynamic environments.