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Chapter 3
Managing info system (wade)
Term | Definition |
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Assumptions | unobservable since they reflect organizational values that have becomes so taken for granted that they guide organizational behavior without any of the group members thinking about them |
Beliefs | Are the perceptions that people hold about how things are done in their community |
Culture | Is defined as the set of "shared values and beliefs" that a group holds and that determines how the group perceives, thinks about, and appropriately reacts to its various environments. |
Decision rights | Indicate who in the organization has the responsibility to initiate, supply information for, approve, implement, and control various types of decsions |
Enacted values | Are the values and norms that are actually exhibited or displayed in employee behavior. |
Espoused values | The explicitly stated preferred organization values |
Flat organization structure | Has less well-defined chain of command |
Hierarchical Organization structure | An organizational form based on the concepts of division of labor, specialization, spans of control, and unity of command |
Matrix organization structure | Assigns workers to two or more supervisors in an effort to make sure multiple dimensions of the business are integrated |
Networked organization structure | Characteristically feel flat and hierarchical at the same time |
Observable artifacts | Physical manifestations as traditional dress, symbols in art, acronyms, awards, myths and stories told about the group, rituals, and ceremonies and so on. |
Organizational strategy | Includes the organization's design, as well as the managerial choices that define, set up, coordinate, and control its work processes |
Social Network | Is an IT- enabled network that links individuals together in ways that enable them to find experts, get to know colleagues, and see who has relevant experience for projects across traditional organization lines |
Values | Reflect the community's aspirations about the way things should be done |