MGT 3304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Job Analysis, Kohen, Equal Opportunity
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Centralization- decision making held by top managers. Decentralization- pushing down decision making throughout the organization. lowest levels of an organization. Challenge to have decision makers successful: formalization. Extend to which organization is guided by rules and procedures. Provide specific guidelines to exploit best practices formally across organization. Formal described as mechanistic: mechanistic v organic. Structure low in specialization, formalization and centralization. Popular contingency variables: organization strategy, task interdependence, organization size, geographic dispersion, routines of task technology, environmental uncertainty, individual differences. Lesson 8: human resources: people are the most important resource, 1. Make sure organization has people to get job done: 2. Make sure organization complies to laws and regulations. The jobs of hrm: human resources planning, recruitment. Get as many of the right people to apply as needed. Advertisement, word of mouth and many other ways: selection. Resume, job application and interview: orientation and socialization. Focuses on introduction and introduces rules and policies.
