Organizational Basics
This includes money, employees, materials, and customer needs that organizations must understand to survive.
What is Organizational Resources
Organizations that interact with their environment are called this
What are open systems?
This theory states that structure depends on the environment.
What is contingency theory
This structure has strict rules, hierarchy, and procedures
What is machine Bureaucracy
This concept focuses on groups of organizations rather than individuals
What is popular ecology
Organizations gather this through research, feedback, and data analysis to understand their needs.
What is Information/data
These are the three main inputs organizations take in.
What are people, money, and resources?
In a stable environment, organizations use this type of structure.
What is mechanistic structure?
This structure divides a company into multiple sub-groups
What is divisional form?
This idea explains that only well adapted organizations survive
What is natural selections
This is what organizations produce after transforming inputs.
What are Outputs
This idea explains that there is no single best way to organize.
What is “no one best way”?
In an unstable environment organizations use this structure
What is an organic structure?
This type includes universities and hospitals with individual autonomy
What is professional bureaucracy
This phrase contrasts “survival of the fittest” with a better concept
What is “survival of the fitting”
This concept says organizations must be viewed as a whole, not just individual parts.
What is a systems view (or holistic view)?
Organizations must do this to survive in changing environments.
What is adapt?
This type of environment requires a balance of innovation and stability
what is moderately changing environment
This flexiable, low hierarchy structure is common is startups
what is simple structure
This idea explains that organizations evolve together in ecosystems
what is co-creation
When parts of an organization do not align, this occurs.
What is inefficiency/Poor performance?
This determines whether an organization will be successful.
What is environmental fit?
This profile involves rapid change and continuous innovation
What is a highly turbulent environment?
This highly adaptable, project-based organization thrives in unstable environments
what is adhocracy
This is one limitation of the organismic metaphor
What is ignoring power/conflict or over simplification