Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Safety Culture, Organizational Chart, Performance Management

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Stelian Medianu

Document Summary

Lecture 9 organizational structure and organizational culture & change. Formally dictates how jobs and tasks are divided and coordinated between individuals and groups within the company. An organizational chart is a drawing that represents every job in the organization and the formal reporting relationships between those jobs. Such charts vary in five structural elements. Represents the degree to which tasks in an organization are divided into separate jobs. Answers the question of who reports to whom and signifies formal authority relationships. Represents how many employees each manager in the organization has responsibility for. An organization"s span of control affects how tall or flat its organizational chart becomes: many hierarchal levels: more likely to have narrower span of control, flatter organization: more likely to have a wider span of control. Refers to where decisions are formally made in organizations. Represents the degree to which rules and procedures are used to standardize behaviours and decisions in an organization.