HRM303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Differentiator, Organizational Culture, Organizational Architecture

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM303
• Professor: Vince Di Ruzza

Document Summary

Organizations: systems that apply procedures to a set of resources to transform inputs into valued outputs. Technology: procedures and resources used by an organization to transform inputs into outputs. Four types of resources in the transformation process: Management must acquire these resources, combine and deploy them to achieve organizational goals. Business strategy: organization"s plan for how it will achieve its goals. Organization structure: vehicle for executing this strategy and has several structural dimensions or variables. Contingency approach to organization design: approach to organization design based on premise that the best type of structure for an organization depends on the key contingencies associated with that organization. Job design: dimension of organization structure that describes the manner in which the total task of an organization is divided into separate jobs. Coordination and departmentation: dimension of organization structure that describes the methods used to coordinate the work of individual employees and subunits in an organization.