MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Stamp Act 1765, Yellow Journalism, Organizational Culture
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Media scholars employing an organizational perspective seek to understand why media organizations, a specific medium, or the mass media institution produces the content it does. In other words, these scholars understand that an organization is more than merely an assemblage of disparate parts. Collectively, employers and employees comprise organizations: a system or network of ordered relationships and coordinated activities directed toward specific goals. Every organization has two basic dimensions: structure and process. Structure describes the underlying framework that shapes an organization over time and includes three key elements: hierarchy. Refers to the specific arrangements of job roles and positions based upon authority within an organization: differentiation and specialization. Accounts for the division of companies into units, departments, and positions, each of which preforms specific tasks: formalization. The degree to which specific practices must conform to accepted organizational and professional conventions. Process denotes the actual substance erected upon that framework.
