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Organizational structure refers to the way an organization is configured into work groups and the reporting and authority relationships that connect individuals and groups together.
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Contingency theory is the main framework for understanding organizational design.
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Specialization refers to the extent to which there are different specialist roles and how they are distributed within the organization.
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Centralization refers to the extent to which authority to make decisions lies with the top of the organization.
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Network organizations can expand rapidly and produce synergistic results, as each organization leverages its unique competence.
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Actor-Network Theory (ANT) recognizes that actors build networks involving only human actors.
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Virtual organizations rely solely on conventional organizational boundaries to link people, assets, and ideas.
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Structuration theory emphasizes the importance of how actors understand the organization, but not the social context shaping their behavior.
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Decentralization and organizational structure are not important concepts in management studies.
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Weber's ideal organizational structure includes specialization and division of labor, a hierarchical arrangement of positions, a system of impersonal rules, and personal relationships.
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Flat structures reduce the number of staff while retaining the same number of levels.
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Multidivisional structures are built around inputs and allow for faster responses to market conditions.
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Matrix organization design involves overlaying a hierarchical structure with a horizontal one around big projects.
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Advantages of matrix structures include connecting specialized knowledge to all projects, increased flexibility to form cross-functional teams, facilitating mechanisms for dealing with multiple sources of power, and building project loyalties.
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New organizational forms, such as project organizations, operate primarily through project teams with functional departments having a supporting role.
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Project organizations have characteristics similar to Mintzberg's 'Adhocracy,' which is a loose, organic network with few formal rules and regulations.
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True or false: Mintzberg's organizational forms include bureaucratic, organic, and matrix forms.
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True or false: According to Mintzberg, the machine form of organization has low formalization and standardization.
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True or false: Mintzberg's forces for proficiency, concentration, and innovation include encouraging standardization and formalization.
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True or false: Mintzberg's seven forces driving organizations include direction, efficiency, proficiency, and cooperation.
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True or false: According to Mintzberg, size is positively correlated to overall role specialization and formalization of procedures in an organization.
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Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Institutional Theory both emphasize stability and resistance to change in organizational arrangements.
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Isomorphism refers to organizations in the same sector adopting similar structures due to conformity, mimesis, and risk aversion.
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Ineffective organizational structures can lead to high motivation, effective decision making, and low conflict.
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According to Chandler's Strategy-Structure thesis, structure follows strategy due to economic efficiency.
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Study Notes
- Actor-Network Theory (ANT) explains the process of creating and maintaining networks for projects, focusing on rationales and concerns.
- Interessement: occurrence leads to behavior aligned with desired outcomes by enrolling actors.
- Mobilization: successful enrolment creates a network working towards solutions.
- ANT and Institutional Theory share focus on organizing people, technology, and knowledge.
- Institutional Theory highlights cultural influences on decisions and stability of organizational arrangements, but not change.
- Isomorphism: organizations in the same sector adopt similar structures due to conformity, mimesis, and risk aversion.
- Institutional Theory emphasizes stability, but environmental triggers and technology use impact structure.
- Ineffective organizational structures can result in low motivation, inadequate decision making, conflict, and rising costs.
- Strategy and structure are linked as organizations change strategies in response to the environment and technology.
- Institutional Theory's strategy-structure relationship is complex, as strategy influences structure more than vice versa.
- Chandler's Strategy-Structure thesis: structure follows strategy due to economic efficiency, but Amburgey and Dacin show a more complex relationship.
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