BU398 Chapter Notes -Organizational Architecture, Organizational Culture, Espn Bottomline
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The role of strategic direction in organization design. Organization design reflects the way goals and strategies are implemented, and is the administration and execution of strategic plan: effectiveness outcomes: resources, efficiency, goal attainment, competing values. New goals and strategy are selected based on environmental needs, and then top management attempts to redesign the organization to achieve those ends. Performance measurements feedback into the internal environment, so that past performance of the organization is assessed by top management in setting new goals and strategic direction for the future. Mission (official goal): the overall goal for an organization, describes the organization"s vision, its shared values and beliefs, and its reason for being. Definition of business scope and outcomes the organization is trying to achieve. Operative goals: designate the ends sought through the actual operating procedures of the organization and explain what the organization is actually trying to do. Goal concerns overall performance, boundary spanning, maintenance, adaptation, and production activities.
