BUS 2090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Job Design, Intellectual Property
16 Aug 2016
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Signified by titles like president, manager and supervisor. Autonomy and control (power reduced with more levels) communication (coordination of levels) horizontal is the basic tasks that must be performed into jobs then departments to achieve goals, main basis is required work flow. Job design is crucial (nothing inherently superior) and differentiation is the tendency for managers in separate units, functions or departments to differ in terms of goals, time spans and interpersonal styles. 14. 2 departmentation: in its functional form, is defined as employees working with closely related skills and responsibilities are assigned to the same department. Advantages include efficiency and easily shared resources, communication enhanced, performance easier to measure: product departmentation is when departments are formed on the basis of a particular product, product line or service. Each operates autonomously, better coordinated, evaluated as profit centres: matrix departmentation is when employees remain members of a functional department while also reporting to a product or project manager.
