GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Strategic Management, Problem Solving, Informal Learning

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

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Organizing: arranges people and resources to work toward a goal. Organization structure: is a system of tasks, reporting relationships, and communication linkages. Any structure should both allocate tasks through a division of labour and provide for the coordination of performance results. Organization chart: describes the arrangement of work positions within an: typical chart shows various positions and job titles as well as lines of organization authority. Formal structure: is the official structure of the organization. Informal structure: the set of unofficial relationships among an organization"s members. People meeting up without any official work related conversations. Advantage informal learning: takes place while working and interacting together. Departmentalization: is the process of grouping together people and jobs into: three major result types of organizational structures: work units, functional, divisional (cid:215) (cid:215, matrix. Functional structure: groups together people with similar skills who perform similar tasks. Figure 8. 2, functional structures in a business, pg.