Organization and Administration Flashcards
Organization and Administration: Environmental Ecology 4 Key Components
- Physical Setting
- Organizational Factors
- Human Aggregate
- Social Climate
Organization and Administration: Environmental Ecology - Physical Setting
Physical features of campuses that stimulate, limit, or otherwise influence individual behaviors.
Organization and Administration: Environmental Ecology - Organizational Factors
- Emerge from the patterns of organization, structure, and process that evolve within the institution to achieve goals
- Complexity: postsecondary institutions vary in size and number of units that exist in their organizations
- Centralization: more centralized institutions might be required to make decisions that are driven more heavily by executive administrators, whereas the decision making at decentralized campuses is concentrated in departments and programs dispersed across their campuses.
- Formalization: campuses differ in the extent to which rules are formalized in institutional policies and norms, such as variation in the degree to which individuals are expected to be physically present during business hours
- Morale: institutions vary in the level of morale that exists within the environment, with some institutions engendering more enthusiasm and commitment to be part of the campus community among its members than others
Organization and Administration: Environmental Ecology - Human Aggregate
Dominant characteristics of individuals in a given setting. Environments that are transmitted through people, and the dominant of an environment are, in part, a function of the individuals who comprise it.
Organization and Administration: Environmental Ecology - Social Climate
Socially constructed elements of organizational environments and acknowledge that a consensus of individuals constitutes an important environmental press that exerts direct influence on human behavior.
