ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE CHAPTER OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter‚ students should be able to: 1. Identify the six key elements that define an organization’s structure. 2. Describe a simple structure. 3. Explain the characteristics of a bureaucracy. 4. Describe a matrix organization. 5. Explain the characteristics of a “virtual” organization. 6. Summarize why managers want to create boundaryless organizations. 7. List the factors that favor different organization structures. 8. Explain
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1. How do primary groups differ from secondary groups? Give examples of each in your own life. Primary group is a small social group whose members share personal and lasting relationships. Family Relationships in our family represent personal and emotional bonds. We spend a significant amount of time together‚ allowing each member to support‚ comfort and encourage one another. Close Friends Spending a lot of time experiencing different adventures with my close friends‚ chatting about personal
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appointed government official with certain duties and responsibilities defined by disposition in the bureaucracy. A bureaucrat is more dependent on the government than an aristocrat because official power comes from official appointment through the bureaucracy (Class Lecture‚ Oct. 16‚ 97). Bureaucracy first replaced aristocracy in the Tang dynasty‚ under the rule of Empress Wu (625?-706?‚ r.690-706) bureaucracy was expanded by furthering expansion policies and supporting the examination system. Positions
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you to consider the basic structure of an organisation‚ and the much-maligned bureaucratic model in particular. (While it is fashionable‚ and ‘on-trend’‚ to deride bureaucracy‚ believe me – you will be working in one! So it’s important to consider the pros and cons of the model…) 4. Adler‚ P. S. (1999). Building better bureaucracies. Academy of Management Executive‚ 13 (4)‚ 36-47. 5. Anand‚ N. & Daft‚ R. L. (2007). What is the right organization design? Organizational Dynamics‚ 36 (4)‚ 329-344
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decides that it is his personal responsibility to attempt to find out where this creature belongs. Shaun Tan wrote this book primarily to entertain and amuse his audience; however‚ he also included various controversial comments on the power of bureaucracy and various other social concerns. Although‚ the simple sentences and an even simplistic storyline suggest this book is set for the older primary aged children‚ however‚ the complex issues and concerns raised by the book allude to the fact that
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2. Can the institution of Lokpal reduce corruption in India? Corruption is a universal phenomenon. No society is free from it. As far back as 200 b.c.‚ Kautilya had defined and identified different varieties of corruption and had lamented that‚ “Just as it is impossible not to taste the honey that finds itself at the tip of tongue‚ its impossible for the government servant not to eat up a bit of king’s revenue‚ Just as it is impossible to detect whether a fish swimming through water drinks it or
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order to achieve the highest efficency‚ we should maximized the outputs and minimized the inputs. Organizational Structure As efficiency is the main value of managerial approach‚ organizations are suggeted to follow Max Weber’s “ideal-type bureaucracy” which stresses the funtional specialization for “efficiency”. Hierarchy adopt the effective coordination. Programs and funtions are clearly divided to organizational units with minimized overlaping. Postions are
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collaboration and innovation” but his view can be also challenged as a mere ‘’utopian idea of post-bureaucratic precedents which comes into focus as potentially a set of prejudice and incompetence” (Grey‚ 2005‚ p. 86) as a result of a war against bureaucracy which can be considered to be “the death of all sound work” (Einstein‚ 1921). Facebook presents ‘environment as a culture.’ What they probably mean by this is that internal environment‚ from Facebook’s point of view‚ is everything that surrounds
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French.dutch Spanish.The modern administrative systems in third world countries are relatively unharmonious with their economic‚ political and cultural context. As far as the economic context is concerned‚ we can say that the elite structure and bureaucracies have been inconsistent with the third world’s economic needs to develop private capital and entrepreneurship‚ achieve economic success and resolve poverty and inequality. For political context there has been inconsistency between the bureaucratic
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TIME: 8:00/11:00 PROFESSOR: MR. CATLI ROBERTO TOPIC: Reaction on “Is there a Philippine Public Administration? R E A C T I O N P A P E R Of course there is a Philippine public administration considering the massive role of the bureaucracy in Public Administration. There is Philippine public administration because there is governance ever since. There is a Philippine public administration when we consider its major areas. But the quality of public administration in our country
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