GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Strategic Management, Work Unit, Political Boss

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

Document Summary

There are 4 main components in an organizaion: planning, to set the direcion, leading, to inspire efort, and organizing : to divide up the work, arrange resources, and coordinate aciviies. By reading an organizaion chart, you can learn the basics of an organizaion"s formal structure including: Communicaion channels lines show formal communicaion lows. Major subunits: posiions reporing to a common manager are shown. Levels of management: verical layers of management are shown. Every formal structure also has an informal structure. It is made up of the unoicial, but oten criical, working relaionships between organizaional members: a tool known as social network analysis ideniies the informal structures and their embedded social relaionships that are acive in an organizaion. It asks quesions such as who they turn for help most oten, who they communicate with regularly, and who energize or de-energize them.