MGHB02H3 Chapter 14: Chapter_14
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What is organizational structure: organizational structure: the manner in which an organization divides its labour into specific tasks and achieves coordination among these tasks. Interest: causes and consequences of organizational structure: how an organization"s indiv and groups are put together or organized to accomplish work. The digital workplace o o o: diversity. Labour must be divided b/c indiv have physical and intellectual limitations: vertical dimensions, horizontal dimensions. Primarily w/ apportioning authority for planning and decision making-who does what. The domain of decision making and authority is reduced as the number of levels in the hierarchy increases: managers have less authority over fewer matters. A flatter hierarchy pushes authority lower and involves people further down the hierarchy in more decisions. Timely communication and coordination become harder to achieve. As number of levels in the hierarchy increases, filtering is more likely to occur.
