MGMT105 2 24 UNIT 2 What is the number one time consumer for top line managers executives o Meetings Emails CHAPTER 6 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE o Specification of the jobs to be done within an organization and the ways in which they relate to one another How do you specify what job needs to be done ORGANIZATION CHART DOES NOT SHOW POWER o Diagram depicting a company s structure and showing employees where they fit into its operations CHAIN OF COMMAND o Reporting relationships within a company Circumventing going out of order chain of command can be detrimental IT IS A NEED TO FOLLOW CHAIN OF COMMAND Professor Welch reports to the dean who reports to someone else who reports to the president BUILDING BLOCK FOR ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE o SPECIALIZATION Determining who will do what Someone who works for Disney as a cartoonist determining who will do what o DEPARTMENTALIZATION Determining how people performing certain tasks can best be grouped together Process of grouping jobs into logical units Product Process Functional Customer Geographic Product Departmentalization dividing an organization according to specific products or services being created Proctor and Gamble baby products Process Departmentalization dividing an organization according to production processes used to create a good or service A company as Vlasic pickles they are a company that has process departmentalization you are responsible for cleaning the cucumbers each stage of the pickle preparing process is an example of this Functional Departmentalization dividing an organization according to groups functions or activities So and so worked at Exxon as an accountant Jill Shark checked into the Hilton and asked for valet to park her car this is performing a function Hilton hotel any major hotel chain with have functional departmentalization o Hotels perform functions Customer Departmentalization dividing an organization to offer products and meet needs for identifiable customer groups Department store Grocery store divided by customer needs Directing someone to the luggage department or any department desired by the customer Geographic Departmentalization dividing an organization according to the area of the country or the world served by a business o ESTABLISHMENT OF A DECISION MAKING HIERARCHY Deciding who will be empowered to make which decisions and who will have authority over others 02 24 2014 02 24 2014
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