BUSI 5301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Henry Mintzberg, Organizational Culture, Project Manager
3 Mar 2016
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Accommodate ongoing challenges of diversity, ethics, and the motivations and coordination of employees. Organizations have interacting elements or subsystems that consist of inputs, throughputs, and outputs. Organizations acquire inputs such as resources from the environment, then transform them by various throughput processes, and then generate outputs such as products and services. Henry mintzberg theory: technical core, technical support function, administrative supports, top management, middle management. The amount of documentation that details an organization"s standard operating procedures. Formalization, which refers to the amount of written documentation. Centralization, which refers to locus of decision making in the hierarchy. Size, which refers to the organization"s magnitude as measured by the number of people in the organization. Culture, which refers to the underlying values and norms shared by members. Doing the right time, i. e. an organization achieving goals. Hard because stakeholders have different goals for the organization.
