ADMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Organizational Architecture, Systems Theory, Hitech

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1000
• Professor: Keith Lehrer

Document Summary

Session 3: establishing the structure of business. Four broad trends in the changing nature of organization design. The phenomenon of downsizing, its rationale, methods and objectives. What are organization: it is social entities, goal orientation, interaction with external environment and structure based. Goals and objectives, policy making, operations, student said group with goals, employees and managers (not really essential) If an organization dies within 3 minutes of being set up, it is not an organization. Organization need to organize themselves, to be more systematic, system orientated. Wider sense of organization, we need to understand that. Expects not to die soon, but to carry on. Organizations comes as system of closed system and open systems. Organization is an entity is separate from people that make it up. Organization are not expected to disappear when a person dies, expected to be less haphazard. System theory: open, many hi-tech, encourage fluidity, creativity, participation.