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Unit-2-Study Questions With Answers .
Unit-2-Study Questions With Answers .
design?
Organizational design
– Choosing and implementing structures that best
arrange resources to serve the organization’s
mission and objectives.
– A problem-solving activity that should be
approached from a contingency perspective.
Management 8/e - Chapter 11 2
Study Question 1: What are the essentials of
organizational design?
Organizational effectiveness
– Sustainable high performance in using resources to
accomplish mission and objectives.
– Approaches:
• Systems resource approach focuses on inputs.
• Internal process approach focuses on transformation
process.
• Internal process approach focuses on outputs.
• Internal process approach focuses on environment.
Management 8/e - Chapter 11 3
Study Question 1: What are the essentials of
organizational design?
Short-run, medium-run and long-run criteria for
evaluating organizational effectiveness:
– Short-run focus.
• Goal accomplishment.
• Performance efficiency in resource utilization.
• Stakeholder satisfaction.
– Medium-run focus.
• Adaptability in the face of changing environments.
• Development of people and systems to meet new challenges.
– Long-run focus.
• Survival under conditions of uncertainty.
Bureaucracy
– A form of organization based on logic, order, and the
legitimate use of formal authority.
– Bureaucratic designs feature …
• Clear-cut division of labor.
• Strict hierarchy of authority.
• Formal rules and procedures.
• Promotion based on competency.
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