SOC300H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Utah Transit Authority, Organizational Theory, Scientific Method
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Organizations are social structures created by individuals to pursue goals. More accurate what these agencies behaviours are, their actual role of crime and crime control, how police organizations have in common with other organizations. Natural systems: how to survive is a main thing, they are informal structures. Rational: focuses on goals, and they are formal structures. Rational systems theory: people who are pursing a particular goal and doing it efficiently, nazi germany gas chambers to exterminate jewish was a efficient way to do their the best way of doing things thing. Unity of commond principle (receive orders from one person) Span of control principle (limit number of subordinates) Exception principle newly managers should be more interested in exceptional circumstances, and the lower down should be more on routine matters (routine matters vs exceptional circumstances) Line-staff principle people who are on the front lines will deal with achieving goals (teachers teach students) the staff who are above them give advice.
