GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Group Dynamics, Organizational Chart, Informal Learning

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Deborah De Lange

Document Summary

Organizing as a management function: process of arranging people and other resources to work together accomplish goal. System of tasks, workflows , reporting relationships and communication channels that link together the work of diverse individuals and group. Introduction to global organization structure video youtube title organizational structure. Informal organization shadow organization made up of unofficial critical working relationship between organizational members, social network analysis. Disadvantages some behaviour work against best interest of organization as a whole, rumors, inaccurate info, resistance to change, diversion of work efforts from important objectives, feelings of alienation by outsiders people who are left out of informal groupings. Departmentalization specialization grouping together people and jobs into work units. Specialization consistent with prof training and clear career paths. Functional chimney problem fiefdom and turf battles. Too many decisions referred upward in the hierarchy. Work on the same product of process, Located in the same area of geographical area.