BBA102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bachelor Of Business Administration, Common Purpose

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BBA102
• Professor: Dr Alison Barnes

Document Summary

Organisation is a system of consciously coordinated activities or forces of two or more people: for-profit, non-profit or mutual-benefit. Hierarchy of authority: control mechanism for making sure the right people do the right things at the right time unity of command. Other: centralisation v decentralisation of authority: centralised authority: important decisions are made by higher-level managers, decentralised authority: important decisions are made by middle-level and supervisory-level managers. Simple structure: authority is centralised in a single person with few rules and low work specialisation. Functional structure: people with similar occupational specialties are put together in formal groups. Divisional structure: people with diverse occupational specialities are put together in formal groups by similar products, customers, or geographic regions. Matrix structure: an organisation combines functional and divisional chains of command in a grid so that there are two command structures vertical and horizontal.