SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unintended Consequences, Structuration Theory, Structural Holes
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Operational requirements: organizations must, define goals, dispense products/services, select, train, replace workers, accommodate neighbours, use resources to expand and maintain, harmonize work flows with human elements induce cooperation. Environment: elements outside the organization that influence its ability to survive, physical, technological, social, cultural environment, dependent on relations within the system, clients, constituents, customers resources, opportunities, constraints, demands, threats. Strategies and goals: choices about markets, clients, competition, tactics, output goals, prospectors create innovative products and services, defenders develop efficiencies in internal processes, analysers combine approaches. Work and technology: work task organization needs to accomplish its goals tech inputs into outputs, materials, people, knowledge, symbolic. Formal organization: codification of roles and relations, codification law of rules? (when you get hired and there"s a set of rules, hr, job design, organization structure. Informal organization: outside of the organizational chart, cultures, norms, values, social networks, power and politics, leaders, cultural theory of organizations; truth, human nature, relationships, networks and social capital.
