GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Work Unit, Habitat, Organizational Culture

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Ado Abdoulkadre

Document Summary

Lecture 10 class notes: organizing as a management function. The system of tasks, workflows, reporting relationships and communication channels that link together diverse individuals and groups. Figure 8. 1 organizing viewed in relationship with the other management functions: organizing as a management function. Gms 200: major subunits, levels of management, organizing as a management function. A shadow organization made up of the unofficial, but often critical, working relationships between organization members. Certain people you can contact and things you can do that is not in the organizational chart: potential advantages of informal structures, helping people accomplish their work, overcoming limits of formal structure. Informal learning: potential disadvantages of informal structures, may work against best interests of entire organization, susceptibility to rumor, may carry inaccurate information, traditional organization structures. Figure 8. 3 functional structures in a business, branch bank and community hospital. Branch bank divisions made based on structure/goals of company. Hospital not for profit company, for the public.