COMMERCE 1BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Shampoo
2 Dec 2016
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The manner in which an organization divides its labour into specific tasks and achieves coordination among these tasks. To achieve its goals, an organization has: to divide labour among its members, to coordinate what has been divided, to have other structural characteristics in place, division of labour (job specialization) La(cid:271)our (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e differe(cid:374)tiated (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause e(cid:448)eryo(cid:374)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t do e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g. Vertical division of labour: assigning authority for planning and decision making, (cid:862)who gets to tell (cid:449)ho(cid:373) (cid:449)hat to do? (cid:863, autonomy. Domain of authority is decreased as the number of levels in the hierarchy increase: communication. With more levels, communication and coordination are harder to achieve: _______ specialized from organizing tasks assigned to a particular job or role, vertical job specialization has visual implications. Horizontal division of labour: groups the basic tasks that must be performed into jobs and then into departments so that the organization can achieve its goals. Implications for job design and degree of coordination: differentiation.
