BU398 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Outsourcing, Wind Turbine, Organizational Culture
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Designates formal reporting relationships, including the number of levels in the hierarchy and the span of control of managers and supervisors. Identifies the grouping together of individuals into departments and those departments into the organization. And it includes the designs systems to ensure effective communication, coordination, and integration of efforts across departments. Organizational structure is reflected in the organization chart (visual representation of underlying activities and processes) which shows how all parts are interrelated. Information processing perspective on structure (in lecture slides) If the organization structure does not fit the information requirements people have too little info or spend too much time processing info therefore, reducing effectiveness. Horizontal linkages coordination/collaboration (choose a contemporary learning design focused on communication: decentralized decision making; problems pushed down to lower levels. Vertical linkages control (choose a traditional design focused on efficiency: centralized decision making; problems funnelled to top levels of hierarchy. Linkage is the extent of communication and coordination among organizational elements.