ADM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: American Apparel, Departmentalization, Proper Time

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 1300
• Professor: Archibald

Document Summary

Canadian is trying to bring them back, focused on the principle of selling clothing. New thing is online, no retail shops renewal strategy. Focusing on online sales of basic apparel. If democrats get more seats, they might control congress or senate. Make it more difficult for trump to get through his policies. Outlines the jobs to be completed within an organization and how the jobs relate to one another. Arranging jobs to create an efficient task system within the firm. Ultimate goal: if you"re responsible for creating a structure / part of a structure and are managing resources, you don"t want redundancy within the system. Don"t want two people doing the same thing. Can be a challenge because people in large organizations don"t communicate with each other. Span of control: the number of people who report to one particular manager. Typically in a horizontal structure, each individual manager has a wide span of control.