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    This document provides an overview of organizational theory, including: 1. It defines organizations as social entities that are goal-directed and structured activity systems linked to the external environment. 2. It discusses structural dimensions of design and contingency factors that influence organizational structure, such as technology, size, goals, environment, and culture. 3. Performance and effectiveness outcomes are measured by resource usage and goal achievement from the perspectives of multiple stakeholder groups.

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    This document provides an overview of organizational theory, including: 1. It defines organizations as social entities that are goal-directed and structured activity systems linked to the external environment. 2. It discusses structural dimensions of design and contingency factors that influence organizational structure, such as technology, size, goals, environment, and culture. 3. Performance and effectiveness outcomes are measured by resource usage and goal achievement from the perspectives of multiple stakeholder groups.

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    This document provides an overview of organizational theory, including: 1. It defines organizations as social entities that are goal-directed and structured activity systems linked to the external environment. 2. It discusses structural dimensions of design and contingency factors that influence organizational structure, such as technology, size, goals, environment, and culture. 3. Performance and effectiveness outcomes are measured by resource usage and goal achievement from the perspectives of multiple stakeholder groups.

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    This document provides an overview of organizational theory, including: 1. It defines organizations as social entities that are goal-directed and structured activity systems linked to the external environment. 2. It discusses structural dimensions of design and contingency factors that influence organizational structure, such as technology, size, goals, environment, and culture. 3. Performance and effectiveness outcomes are measured by resource usage and goal achievement from the perspectives of multiple stakeholder groups.

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    Chapter 1

    ORGANIZATIONS
    &
    ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY
    What is an Organization?
    ✓Social entities that are goal-directed.

    ✓Structured & coordinated activity systems.


    ✓Linked to the external environment
    Structural Dimensions of Design and
    Contingency
    Contingency Factors Structural Dimensions
    –Organizational –Professionalism -
    Technology Formalization
    –Size –Specialization -
    Personnel Ratios
    –Goals and
    strategy –Hierarchy of
    Authority
    –Environment
    –Complexity
    –Culture –Centralization
    Organization Chart
    Performance and Effectiveness Outcomes
    Performance and Effectiveness Outcomes

    amount of resources degree to which an


    used to achieve the organization achieves its
    organization’s goals goals
    Performance and Effectiveness Outcomes

    Stakeholder Approach
    balancing the needs of groups
    in and outside of the
    organization that has a stake in
    the organization’s performance.
    Major Stakeholder Groups & What They
    Expect
    EVOLUTION OF
    ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY
    EVOLUTION OF
    ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY

    Efficiency is Everything
    Scientific Management
    Frederick Winslow Taylor
    EVOLUTION OF
    ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY
    Mintzberg’s Organizational Types

    ✓The five parts


    are interrelated
    and often serve
    more than one
    function.
    Organic and Mechanistic Designs

    MECHANISTIC ORGANIC
    characterized
    by machine-like is looser,
    standard rules free-flowing,
    and procedures and adaptive
    with clear
    authority.
    Contemporary Ideas
    Contemporary Ideas

    Today’s organizations are imprinted with hierarchical,


    formalized mechanistic approach.
    Contemporary Ideas

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