GMS 200 Chapter Notes -Strategic Management, Departmentalization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Bamidele Adekunle

Document Summary

Gms ch 8 organization and structures and design. Organizing is the process of arranging people and other resources to work together to accomplish a goal. It involves creating a division of labour and then coordinating results to achieve a common purpose. Planning is to set the direction, leading is to inspire effort and controlling is to ensure results. Organization structure is a system of tasks, reporting relationships, and communication linkages. Formal structures: is the official structure of the organization. Reading an organization chart, you can learn the basics of an organization"s formal structure, including: Division of work: positions and titles show work responsibilities. Supervisory relationships: lines show who reports to whom. Major subunits: positions reporting to a common manager are shown. Levels of management: vertical layers of management are shown. Informal structures: the set of unofficial relationships among an organization"s members. It is a shadow organization made up of the unofficial but often critical, working relationships between organizational members.