week 2: types of organizations

Question 1

organization

Answer 1

2 people or more that work together toward a common goal

Question 2

to organize

Answer 2

the fact of dividing the work in manageable components and assign activities for achieving the desired results more effectively

Question 3

efficiency

Answer 3

doing things to achieve our goals

Question 4

efficacy

Answer 4

using our resources wisely in a way that we can work towards out goals

Question 5

effectiveness

Answer 5

actually achieving our goals

Question 6

characteristics of organizations

Answer 6

1. organizational structure
2. size
3. funding
4. clients

Question 7

characteristics of organizations: organizatoinal structure

Answer 7

• how decisions are being made
• this means by which information flows efficiently from the people and departments that create it to those who are required to act on it
• three different organizational structures
• organizational formation

Question 8

Organizational complexity

Answer 8

(kitchen table model, informal)
1. horizontal
2. vertical
3. spatial

Question 9

horizontal

Answer 9

a lot of people at the same decision making stage

Question 10

vertical

Answer 10

• a lot of hierarchies in the organization, different people at different levels who can make decisions
• you need the next level of agreement

Question 11

spatial

Answer 11

• geographically spread out
• ie. companies that have offices all around the world

Question 12

organizational formalization

Answer 12

• rules have to be followed in a certain order
• extant to which policies, rules etc are required

Question 13

organizational centralization

Answer 13

• hierarchical level of decision making
• centralized organizations, one department or person or group who has the final say

Question 14

size of organizations

Answer 14

• number of members (often helpful when referring to community sport )
• number of employees (used by government of Canada (most “official way” to categorize by size
• budget size (can be helpful when comparing competing organizations depending on the context)

Question 15

Government of Canada employee sizes

Answer 15

under 100 = small
larger organizations is categorized as over 500 employees

Question 16

funding

Answer 16

• public, member, sales (memberships fees, ticket sales, public funding

Question 17

clients

Answer 17

• youth, adults
• the primary consumers of the products/services offered

Question 18

amateur

Answer 18

those playing the sport are not getting paid
- typically means organizations on the smaller side, in terms of budget, but will have more members or people playing the sport

Question 19

professional

Answer 19

• those playing the sport are paid
• less members, larger budget
• regional vs provincial vs national vs international

Question 20

regional

Answer 20

• local
• members are people playing basketball
• lots of members

Question 21

provincial

Answer 21

• larger geographically area
• our provinces

Question 22

national

Answer 22

• sport for entire country
• members are provincial organizations

Question 23

international

Answer 23

• members are national

Question 24

three types of organizations

Answer 24

1. public
2. non-profit
3. for-profit

Question 25

4 different design types

Answer 25

1. functional
2. divisional
3. matrix
4. network

Question 26

functional design type

Answer 26

when we have an organization divided based on the activities they are doing. Ie. All the finance people work together, the marketing people work together, etc. often what we see for high performance organizations

Question 27

divisional design types

Answer 27

• work is divided by outputs
• have divisions for each team, within those teams you have divisions for the individual groups (ie. marketing)

Question 28

matrix design type

Answer 28

lots of areas of specialization

Question 29

network design types

Answer 29

• small organization manages something (like events) and they outsource for lots of other activities
• ie. olympics hiring more police

Question 30

power in organizations

Answer 30

1. legitimate power
2. reward power
3. coercive power
   4 referent power
4. expert power

Question 31

legitimate power

Answer 31

position within the organization

Question 32

reward power

Answer 32

ability to distribute formal or informal rewards

Question 33

coercive power

Answer 33

ability to punish

Question 34

referent power

Answer 34

charisma

Question 35

expert power

Answer 35

knowledge