Organization theory and design: Lecture 45

Organization theory and design: Lecture 45 provides students with content about: organizational structure; vertical information linkages; horizontal information linkages; functional, divisional and geographical structures; matrix structure; horizontal structure; boundary less organizations;... Please refer to the lesson for details!

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• Organizational structure

• Vertical information linkages

• Horizontal information linkages

• Functional, divisional and geographical structures

• Matrix structure

• Horizontal structure

• Boundary less organizations

• Hybrid structure

• External environment

• Environmental uncertainty

• Adapting to uncertainty through positions and departments, buffering and boundary spanning

• Differentiation Vs integration

• Mechanistic and organic designs

• Organizational ecosystems

• Population ecology model (variation, selection and retention)

• Organizational level manufacturing technologies

• Service Vs manufacturing firms

• Departmental technologies, Variety and Analyzability

• Departmental design

• IT and KM

• Inter organizational relationships

• Organizational size

• Organizational life cycle

• Organizational control systems; market, bureaucratic and clan controls

• Organizational culture

• Ethical values

• Change management

• Decision making in organizations

• Rational and bounded rationality and intuitive decision making

• Conflict, power and politics