ADMN 1000H Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Departmentalization, Ray Kroc, Mcdonaldization
4 Apr 2016
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What does it mean if you are organized". Are there gender or cultural or occupational differences in the meaning of. The process of structuring social and material resources to accomplish shared/common objectives . Consensually validated grammar for reducing equivocality by means of sensible interlocked behaviour. Generic and modern positive bureaucracy a la text. Dimensions of any organizations structure, any production system, and business process: standardization, specialization, centralization, departmentalization. Adam smith"s pin factory (1776: contrast with artisanal" organizing. What are the components of karl weick"s ideas about organization". Social construction: the road sign theory, classic example of structure"- organizing by rules/policies. Ray kroc, the mcdonald brothers, and the five spindled multimixer". A business process and org structure that becomes a m uch broader social process. Other examples of efficient, impersonal mass structure. Efficiency and modern commercial capitalism" as an issue to which this is a response.
