MHR 841 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Virtual Team, Advantageous, Hierarchical Organization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 841
• Professor: Agnes Meinhard

Document Summary

Part two of course: organizational purpose & structural design. *this first page doesn"t really align with textbook; headings don"t match (cid:523)for ex. (cid:498)traditional elements of. Orgs use various structural alternatives to help them achieve their purpose & goals structural changes are needed to reflect new strategies or respond to changes in other factors (environment, technology, size, life cycle, culture, etc. ) Structure (organizing) the manner in which an organization divides its labor into specific tasks and achieves coordination among these tasks. Deployment of organizational resources to achieve strategic goals. Functional perspective contd: key functions, hr, purchasing, production, reporting relationships, fitting departments together, traditional elements of formal structure, size, span of control, centralization, formalization, departmentalization, organizational chart. Internal structure of the organization: three key components. These three elements pertain to both the vertical and horizontal aspects of organizing; the first two are the structural framework, which is the vertical hierarchy.