Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter 14: CHAPTER RECAP

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Victoria Digby

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Organizational structure: formally dictates how jobs and tasks are divided and coordinated between individuals and groups within the company. Organizational chart: a drawing that represents every job in the organization and the formal reporting relationships between those jobs. There are 5 key elements to every organizational chart that describe how work tasks, authority relationships and decision making responsibilities are organized: work specialization. :speci es who reports to whom, signi es formal authority relationships: traditional structure, every person has one person they report to and so on, speci c ow of authority down through the levels of an organizations" structure, span of control. :aspect of structure that dictates where decisions are formally made in organizations. Centralized > only top managers within a company have authority to make nal decisions. Decentralized > lower level employees given authority to make decisions: decentralization required as a company gets bigger, formalization.