BUSM 1100 Lecture Notes - Industrial Engineering
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Organization structure formal relationships among jobs in an organization. Organization chart snapshot of the firm, depicting organization"s structure in chart form at a particular point in time. Hierarchical: highly specialized jobs with narrowly defined job descriptions, focus on independent performance. Flat: broadly defined jobs, with general job descriptions, emphasis on teams and product development. Matrix: each job has two functions: functional and product, dual reporting system. Process of systematically organizing work into tasks that are required to perform a specific job. Job group of related activities and duties, held by single employee or number of incumbents. Position collection of tasks and responsibilities performed by one person. Job specialization (industrial engineering: work simplification. Work broken down into clearly defined, highly specialized, repetitive tasks to maximize efficiency: industrial engineering. Analyzing work methods and establishing time standards to improve efficiency. Additional tasks at the same level to increase # of tasks they have to perform: job rotation, job enrichment (vertical)
