GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Strategic Management, Work Unit, Organizational Structure

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

Document Summary

Organizing is the process of arranging people and other resources to work together to accomplish a goal. As one of the basic functions of management, it involves creating a division of labour and then coordinating results to achieve a common purpose. Organizing viewed in relationship with the other management functions. Organizing-to create structure: divide up the work, arrange resources, coordinate activities. Planning-to set the direction: what is organization structure, 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. The basics of an organization"s formal structure include: division of work, supervisory relationships, communication channels, major subunits. Informal structures: informal structure is the set of unofficial relationships among an organization"s members, social network analysis identifies the informal structures and their embedded social relationships that are active in an organization.