COMMERCE 1BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Flat Organization, Street Performance, Google China
13 Jun 2016
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Manner where an organization divides its labour about into specific tasks and achieves coordination among these tasks. Recall the 6 different high tech company structures (and how they differ) Making goods selling goods handling finances dealing with human resources. Flat hierarchy: more decision making at the lower level, faster communication, less filtering. If there are fewer people, there is more room for freedom. Increases as organizations grow (all about different departments) Job design scope of job shaped by horizontal division of labour: organizational structure has a direct impact on job design and job enrichment. Positively correlated with differentiation: differentiation tendency for managers in separate units, functions, or departments or differ in terms of goals, time spans and interpersonal styles. A core idea to organizational structure specifically horizontal division of labour: functional, product, matrix, geographic, customer, hybrid. Employees with closely related skills and responsibilities are assigned to the same department.
