BUS 201 Study Guide - Learning Organization, Departmentalization, Organizational Structure

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 201
• Professor: Peter Tingling

Document Summary

A physical depiction of the company"s structure showing employee titles and their relationship to one another. Job specialization: the process of identifying the specific jobs that need to be done and designating the people who will perform them, specialization and growth, departmentalization, the process of grouping jobs into logical units, profit centre. A separate unit responsible for its own costs and profits: functional departmentalization. Departmentalization according to a group"s functions or activities: customer departmentalization. Departmentalization according to the types of customers: product departmentalization. Dividing an organization according to the specific product or service being created: process department. Dividing the company according to the production process used: geographic departmentalization. Divided according to the area of the country/world that they serve. Decide on the nature of the work to be done. Match the job with the skills of subordinates. Make sure the person chosen understands the objectives he or she is supposed to achieve.