MHR 505 Chapter Notes -Hierarchical Organization, Flat Organization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 505
• Professor: Genevieve Farrell

Document Summary

Explain organizational structure and the key concepts of differentitation it is important to understand these concepts and discuss why. Organizational design: the process of constructing and adjusting and orgs structure to match its environment and achieve its goals. Organization structure (os): is the manner in which an organization"s work is designed, as well as how departments, divisions, and the overall org are designed. Differentiation the process of deciding how to divide the work in an org. Ensures that all essential organizational tasks are assigned to one or more jobs and that the tasks receive the attention they need. The more structurally differentiated to the org is, the more complex it is: many dimensions of differentiation are identified as 4 most commonly studied are: managers goal orientation, time orientation, interpersonal orientation, and formality of structure. Integration the process of coordinating the different parts of an org.