MGCR 222 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hemostasis, Homophily, Best Alternative To A Negotiated Agreement

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 222
• Professor: Alfred Jaeger

Document Summary

Social capital o position in relationship web human capital (skills, abilities, resources, expertise) tends to generate more social capital awareness of the relationships and interdependencies therein o o. Matrix organizations o a visual impression or orgs that systematically attempt to combine functional and departmental structure of bureaucracy with a project team structure. o team driven o focus on an end product o sometimes, functional divisions retain control, hindering looseness, and causing failure to innovate o project organizations. Organizational ecology o population ecology relates the environmental factors to the abundance of different types of organisms o criticized for determinism, denying managerial intentions and free will o failure to align with environment can cause demise (link to contingency theory) o selection is the primary driver of change (orgs, according to org thy, don"t change by themselves faced with environmental changes) o consider generalist versus specialist niches in terms of market niches and the means of resource acquirement.