MGHB02H3 Chapter 14: Chapter 14 Notes
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Summarizing structure organic versus mechanistic: mechanistic structures organizational structures characterized by tallness, specialization, centralization, and formalization organic structures organizational structures branded by flatness, low specialization, low formalization, and decentralization. Learning objectives checklist: organizational structure is the manner in which an organization divides its labour into specific tasks and achieves coordination among these tasks. Vertical division of labour concerns the apportioning of authority. 5. outputs, standardization of skills, and mutual adjustment. Workers are permitted more discretion as coordination moves from direct supervision through mutual adjustment. More elaborate methods of coordination are aimed specifically at achieving integration across departments. These include liaison roles, task forces, teams, and integrators. Traditional structural characteristics include span of control, flatness versus tallness, formalization, centralization, and complexity. Larger organizations tend to be more complex, more formal, and less centralized than smaller organizations. The classical organizational theorists tended to favour mechanistic organizational structures (small spans, tall, formalized, and fairly centralized).
