BUSI 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Jargon, Railways Act 1921
25 Jul 2018
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Dimensions: vertical and horizontal di erentiation, integrating mechanisms: formalization, centralization etc, grouping of roles (structures) Structures: environment terminologies, useful dimensions of environment, organization-environment t, [or matching org-env dimensions, exercises (careful) some companies can be centralized and adaptive. Small momma and poppa stores where they are very centralized, mum and dad make all the decisions but also very adaptive, if there"s a holiday or family birthday they can close the store. On the way to the nish line you can adapt to get the same results. Internal env. (internal to the org. : general env, speci c env. (also known as task env. ) Often groups of organizations are studied: sector (normally used by governments, public/private, agricultural/manufacturing etc, industry (normally used by governments and others, transportation, food, computer. General and speci c/ task environments: organization has domain in the general environment. Let"s take a look at the environment organization relationship. The higher the complexity, the greater the uncertainty.
