MAN 3025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Organizational Chart, Common Purpose, Organizational Learning
23 Oct 2018
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Organizational structure and managers: the way an organization"s structure works depends on the choices managers make about: How to group tasks into individual jobs. How to group jobs into functions and divisions. How to allocate authority and coordinate functions and divisions (synergy: structure follows strategy, organizational chart. Common elements of organizations: common purpose. Uni es employees or members and give everyone an understanding of the organization"s reason for being: mission/values statement, coordinated e ort. The coordination of individual e ort into group wide e ort: division of labor. Arrangement of having discrete parts of a task done by di erent people: hierarchy of authority. Control mechanism for making sure the right people do the right things at the right time: unity of demand, span of control. Refers to the number of people reporting directly to a given manager: narrow, wide. Tuesday, october 9, 2018: authority, responsibility, and delegation.
