[ORGS 2010] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (41 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 2010
• Professor: Heather Colquhoun

Document Summary

Organizations are social systems that are constructed to achieve strategic goals deliver on the organizations strategy. Make design and strategy align managers can become more efficient and effective. Efficient accomplishing goals with the least possible expenditure of resources. Effectiveness ensuring that goals are accomplished to the standard necessary for the organization to succeed. Information is the key resource organization is an information processing and enhancing system that guides the value-creating activities of its members so that the organization is both efficient and effective in meeting its goals. Task interdependence the level to which tasks are connected to each other: james thompson 4 types of interdependence: Sequential one task is complement and handed off to the next stage. Pooled tasks are undertaken at the same time final results are put together. Reciprocal tasks conducted in repeated interaction with each other. Differentiation of clusters of activities, positions, and individuals into work units (making little boxes)