GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Impermanence, Habitat, Strategic Management

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: delang

Document Summary

Organizing: arranges people and resources to work towards a goal: used to create structures, divide up work, arrange resources and coordinate activities. What is organization structure: organization structure: is a system of tasks, reporting relationships and communication linkages, system of tasks, workflows, reporting relationships and communication channels link together the work of diverse individuals and groups. Formal structures: organization chart: describes the arrangement of work positions within an organization, formal structure: is the official structure of the organization. Division of work position and titles show work responsibilities. Supervisory relationships line show who reports to whom. Communication channels lines show formal communication flows. Major subunits positions reporting to a common manager are shown. Levels of management vertical layers of management are shown. Informal structures: informal structure: is the set of unofficial relationships among an organization"s members. Working relationships between organizational members: social network analysis: identifies the informal structures and their embedded social relationships that are active in an organization.