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Chapter 10 - Managing Organization Structure and Culture (JG)
Chapter 10 - Managing Organization Structure and Culture (JG)
The process by which managers Job Enlargement: Increasing the Functional Structure: An organizational structure
make specific organizing choices number of different tasks in a composed of all the departments that an
that result in a particular kind of given job by changing the division organization requires to produce its goods or
organizational structure. of labor services.
Job Enrichment: Increasing the Divisional Structure: An organizational structure
Factors Affecting degree of responsibility a worker composed of separate business units, within Product Team Structure: An organizational
Organizational Structure has over his or her job which are the functions that work together to structure in which employees are
The Job Characteristics Model: five produce a specific kind of product for a specific permanently assigned to a crossfunctional
job characteristics affect an kind of customer team & report only to the product manager
employee’s motivation: Product Structure or to one of his or her direct subordinates
Skill variety Market Structure
Task identity Geographic Structure
Task significance Matrix Structure: An organizational structure that
Autonomy simultaneously groups people and resources by
Autonomy function and by product
Managing
Organization
Organizational Culture: The shared set Sources of an Hierarchy of Authority: An Integrating Mechanisms: Organizing tools
of beliefs, expectations, values, and Organization’s Culture. organization’s chain of command, to increase communication & coordination.
norms that influence how members of specifying the relative authority of each Types of Integrating Mechanisms:
an organization relate to one another manager.
and cooperate to achieve the Tall & Flat Organization: A tall organization
organization’s goals. has many levels of authority relative to
Adaptive cultures: values & norms company size; a flat organization has
fewer levels relative to company size
help an organization to build
Minimum chain of command
momentum & to grow and change to Centralization & decentralizing authority:
achieve its goals and be effective. Giving lower-level managers and
Inert cultures: values & norms fail to nonmanagerial employees the right to
motivate or inspire employees; they make important decisions about how to
lead to stagnation and failure. use organizational resources.
Clan Control
Organizational Change
Organization Clan
The control exerted on
individuals & groups in
The movement of an organization away Control an organization by
from its present state and toward some
preferred future state to increase its
Control & Change shared values, norms
standards of behavior,
efficiency and effectiveness & expectations.
Evolutionary Change
Change that is gradual, incremental, Organizational Behavior
and narrowly focused Change Control Management by Objectives (MBO)
Revolutionary Change A goal-setting process in which a manager
Change that is rapid, dramatic, and and each of his or her subordinates
broadly focused. negotiate specific goals and objectives for
Direct Supervision
Steps in the Organizational Change Process The most immediate and potent form the subordinate to achieve and then
Lewin’s Force-Field Theory of Change periodically evaluate the extent to which
of behavior control is direct
A wide variety of forces arise from the the subordinate is achieving those goals.
supervision by managers who actively
way an organization operates—from Steps:
monitor and observe the behavior of
its structure, culture, and control systems 1. Specific goals are established at each
their subordinates, teach subordinates
—that make organizations resistant to level of the organization
the behaviors that are appropriate and
change 2. Managers & their subordinates
inappropriate, & intervene to take
corrective action as needed. together determine the goals
3. Managers and their subordinates
Bureaucratic control periodically review the subordinates’
Control of behavior by means of a progress toward meeting goals
comprehensive system of rules &standard
operating procedures.