Daft chapter 1 Flashcards
What are some of the current challenges for companies?
Globalization, intense competition, Ethics and social responsibilities, speed and responsiveness, the digital workplace, Diversity
Organization exist to do what?
Bring together resources to achieve 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 - the motivation and coordination of employees.
What are the different strucutal dimensions of an organization?
Formalization
Specialization
Hierachy of authority
centralization
profesionalism
Personnel ratios
What is the structual dimension - Formalization
The amount of written documents in the organization. Includes manuals, procedures, policies…
What is the structual dimension - Specialization
How organizational tasks are divided into smaller tasks. the more divided, the more specific each task is
What is the structual dimension - Hiearchy of authority
who reports to whom
What is the structual dimension - Centralization
when decisions are made from the top, the organization is centralized
What is the structual dimension - Personnel ratios
The ratios between different functions of employees.
What is the structual dimension - Professionalism
The level of formal education of the employees
What are the 5 Contextual dimensions?
Size
Organizational technology
the Environment
The goals and strategies
The Culture
What is the Contextual dimension - Size ?
The size of the organisation
What is the Contextual dimension - Organizational technology?
Tools, techniques and actions, used to transform input into output
What is the Contextual dimension - The environment ?
Everything outside the boundaries of the company
What is the Contextual dimension - The Culture ?
The underlying set of key values, beliefs, understandings, and norms shared by the employees
What is the Contextual dimension - The goals and strategies?
Goals are often written down as an enduring statement of company intent.
What is efficiency?
the amount of resources used to achieve the organizations goals.
(Gør tingene rigtigt)
What is effectiveness
the degree to which an organization achieves it’s goals. (gør de rigtige ting)
What is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness?
Do things right, and do the right things.
(gør tingene rigtigt og gør de rigtige ting.)
What are stakeholders?
Everyone who is influenced by the company and it’s decisions.
What describes the Entrepreneurial structure?
Typically a new small start-up company. It consists of mainly a top manager and workers in the technical core. The organization is managed and coordinated directly by the top.
Primary focus is to survive and establish in the industry.
Suited for a dynamic environment.
What describes a Machine Bureaucracy?
Very large and mature organization. The technical core is often oriented to mass production. Fully elaborated technical and administrative departments including engineers, market researchers and financial analysts.
The primary goal is efficiency.
Would not do well in a dynamic environment.
What describes a Professional Bureaucracy?
The main part is the technical core. The technical core here is made of up highly skilled professionals, such as in hospitals, universities and law firms. The technical core can handle most things due to them being autonomous and proffesional.
They typically provide service instead of tangible goods.
What describes the diversified form?
A very large organization which has divided into smaller divisions. Larger administrative support to handle paperwork to and from divisions.
Each of the independent divisions illustrates a machine bureaucracy.
The diversified form helps to solve the problem of inflexibility experienced by a too - large machine bureaucracy.
What describes the Adhocracy?
Develops in a complex rapidly changing environment. The design goal is frequent innovation and meeting continually chaning needs as in the aerospace and defense industries.
Figure above, shows the various parts(middle management, technical and administrative support) merged together into an amorphous mass in the middle. Usually young or middle aged and can grow quite large. Different
What is an example of a Entrepreneurial organization?
Carpenters or new startups
What is an example of a Adhocracy organization?
Rådgivende ingeniører eller biotekvirksomheder
What is an example of a machine bureaucracy?
Production company
What is an example of a Professional bureaucracy?
Banks and schools institutions.
