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What is an organization? (4 parts)
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Social Entities
Goal-directed Designed as deliberately structured and coordinated activity systems Linked to the external environment |
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Organizations exist to do the following:
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Bring together resources to achive desired goals and outcomes
Produce goods and services efficiently Facilitate innovation Use modern manufacturing and information technologies Adapt to and influence a changing environment Create value for owners, customers, and employees Accomodate ongoing challenges of diversity, ethics, and the motivation and coordination of employees |
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Open System vs. Closed System
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Closed system
Does not depend on the its environment; autonomous Open system Must interact with the environment to survive Consumes resources and exports resources to the environment |
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System (def)
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Set of interacting elements that acquires inputs from the environment, transforms them, and discharges ouptuts to the external environment
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Organizational Configuration (5 parts)
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Technical Core
Technincal Support Administrative Support Top Management Middle Management |
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Structural Dimensions (def)
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provide labels to describe the internal characteristics of an organization. Create basis for measuring and comparing other organizations
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Structural Dimensions (types)
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Formalization
Specialization Hierarchy of authority Centralization Professionalism Personnel ratios |
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Contextual dimensions (def)
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Characterize the whole organization. describes organizational setting that influences and shapes the structural dimensions
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Contextual dimensions (types)
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Size
Organizational technology Environment Goals and Strategy Culture |
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Learning Organization
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Promotes communication and collaboration so that everyone is engaged in identifying and solving problems, enabling the organization to continuously experiment, improve and increase its capability
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