ADMS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Closed System, Decision-Making, Organic Work
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Results in increased speed of decision making (faster reaction to changing environment) Employees who are serving customers are more involved in decision making integrated/embedded. Growth in temporary or contract based employment. Bad attitude towards work for contract workers. Establishing closer relationships with suppliers and other companies. What is an organization: they are social entities: made up of people, human interaction, they interact with the environment: raw materials, technology, finances, they are created to reach goals, they possess some sort of structure. Organizations as a: machine, living organism, political system, sports team, family. Interdependent parts working together to achieve a goal. Open systems: requiring resources from environments and generating outputs for environments. Levels of administration tall departmentation functional formalization high social decentralized flat divisional low. Environment: dynamic (uncertain, fast changing) or static (little change, competitors, or new technologies. Virtual organization: attempts to maximize fluidity, flatness, & integradeness with environment. Networking: develop relationships with supplies, competitions, distributors.