MHR 523 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Organizational Chart, Job Analysis, New Product Development

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 523
• Professor: Micheline Laforme

Document Summary

Job: a group of related activities and duties held by a single employee or a number of incumbents. Position: the collection of tasks and responsibilities performed by one person. Job analysis: the procedure for determining the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of each job, and the human attributes (in terms of knowledge, skills, and abilities) required to perform it. Bureaucratic: top down management, many levels/ communications channels, highly specialized jobs with clearly defined job descriptions, focus on independent performance. Flat: managers have increased span of control, more employees report to them, and thus have less time to manage each one, thus more responsibilities for the employee, decentralized management approach, few levels, emphasis on teams and product development. Work simplification: an approach to job design that involves assigning most of the administrative aspects of work to supervisors and mangers, while giving lower level employees narrowly defined tasks established and specified by management.