BUSI 3103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cost Leadership, Organizational Culture, Middle Management

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Business
• Course: BUSI 3103
• Professor: Shawn Smith

Document Summary

Organizations are (1) social entities that are (2) goal directed, (3) designed as deliberately structured and coordinated activity systems, and (4) linked to the external environment. Open system: orgs must cope with an unstable external environment, much more complex, realistic view of the org, current research theory often takes open perspective. System: a set of interacting elements that acquires inputs from the environment transfers them, and discharge outputs to the external environment: in the open system perspective, organizations are made up of a number of systems (or processes). Middle management: responsible for implementing strategies and goals. Tech support staff: monitoring environment, creating innovation in tech core, engineers, analysts, researchers, etc. Administrative support staff: responsible for non-core activities for the operations, finance, hr, maintenance, etc. Create a basis for measuring and comparing organizations: formulization, specialization: Acts to describe behaviour and activities predictability. High specialization - narrow range, low specialization -wide range.