BUS 272 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Team Dynamics, Work Unit, Departmentalization

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Sam Ajit Thiara

Document Summary

Organizaional structure: division of labor as well as the paterns of coordinaion, communicaion, worklow, and formal power that direct organizaional aciviies. Relates to reporing relaionships, job design, informaion low, work standards and rules, team dynamics, and power relaionships. Two fundamental requirements: division of labor and coordinaion. Division of labor: refers to subdivision of work into separate jobs, assigned to diferent people. Leads to job specializaion which increases job eiciency. Tasks can be mastered quickly as work cycles are shorter. Training costs reduced and less ime is wasted changing from one task to another. Makes it easier to match people with speciic apitudes to jobs which they are best suited. Coordinaing work aciviies: when work is divided, coordinaing are required to ensure everyone works in concert. Opimal level of specializaion is limited by feasibility of coordinaing the work. More expensive and diicult as division of labor increases. Sharing info on mutual tasks and forming common mental models to synchronize aciviies.