BU398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Organizational Chart, Decision-Making, Organizational Culture
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Lecture #3: organization design and effectiveness (chapter two) The emphasis placed on efficiency and control versus learning and flexibility is determined by the contingencies of strategy, environment, technology, size and lifecycle and organizational culture. Organizational goals represent the reason for an organization"s existence and the outcomes it seeks to achieve. Organizational effectiveness is the degree to which organization realizes its goals, board concept. Efficiency: is a limited concept, measured as the ratio of inputs to outputs. Organizations bring resources in from the environment, and these resources are transformed into outputs delivered back into the environment. Goal approach: to organizational effectiveness is concerned with the output side and whether the organization achieves its goals in terms of desired levels of output. Resource-based approach: assesses effectiveness by observing the beginning of the process and evaluating whether the organization effectively obtains resources necessary for high performance. Internal-process approach: looks at the internal activities and assesses effectiveness by indicators of internal heal and efficiency.
