MGMT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Santa Barbara City College, Workplace Bullying, Equal Employment Opportunity
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Contingency design: factors in creating the best structure. Contingency design the process of fitting the organisation to its environment. Mechanistic organisation authority is centralised, tasks and rules are clearly specified and employees are closely supervised. Thus they are bureaucratic, with rigid rules and top-down communication. Organic organisations authority is decentralised, there are fewer rules and procedures and networks of employees are encouraged to cooperate and respond quickly to unexpected tasks loose structure". Differentiation tendency of the parts of an organistion to disperse and fragment. This impulse arises of technical specialisation and division of labour as a result specialists behave in specific, delimited ways without coordinating with other parts of the organisation. Integration tendency of the parts of an organisation to draw together to achieve a common purpose. In a highly integrated organisation specialists work to a common goal. Meaning they achieve a formal chain of command, standisation of rules and use of cross-functional teams allowing coordination of all parts.
