BU398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Incident Command System, Incident Commander, Creative Accounting
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Chapter 8 organization size, life cycle, and decline. Organizational characteristics during the life cycle: 1. ) Entrepreneurial informal, focusing on single product, goal is to survive, management style is individualistic, non-bureaucratic, innovation achieved by owner: 2. ) Collectivity mostly informal but with some procedures, major product with variations, goal is growth, management style is direction giving, pre-bureaucratic, innovation achieved by employees and managers: 3. ) Formalization formal procedures and division of labour and new specialties added, line of products, goal is internal stability and market expansion, management style is delegation with control, bureaucratic, innovation achieved by separate innovation group: 4. ) Elaboration teamwork within bureaucracy and small company thinking to prevent further bureaucratization, multiple product lines, goal is reputation and complete organization, management style is team approach and attack bureaucracy, very bureaucratic, innovation achieved by r&d department. How to reduce bureaucracy: organizing temporary systems for flexibility and innovation.
