MGT 3320 Lecture : Notes 9 7 12
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Employee safety: this idea that employees in organizations are able to be safe, regulated by the federal and state government, occupational safety and health act (osha, law that allows the federal government to enforce, general duty clause. Employer has an obligation to provide a place free of hazards: there are certain inspections that should be put in place every now and then. Department of labor agents come in and make sure the organization is complying. Organization structure: relatively stable and formal network of vertical and horizontal interconnection among jobs that constitute the organization, provides a cross-sectional overview of the static relationship between individuals and units that create outputs, typically depicted in organization chart. Functional vs. divisional structures: functional, high centralization, functional departmentalization, units complete one function, engineering, hr, accounting, less flexible, divisional, low centralization, divisional departmentalization, units are semi-autonomous, products, geography, customers, more flexible.
