Motivation In Organizations

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Chapter 10
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Managing Organizational Structure
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Learning Objectives
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• Identify the factors that influence managers
  choice of an organizational structure.
• Explain how managers group tasks into jobs that
  are motivating and satisfying for employees.
• Describe the types of organizational structures
  managers can design, and explain why they choose
  one structure over another.

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Factors Affecting Organizational Design
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Job Design
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Job design is the process of deciding how to
group tasks to be performed to provide goods or
services.
Job Simplification Focuses on task efficiency by
reducing the number of tasks any one individual
does. Tasks are simple, repetitive and
standardized. Can result in routing and boring
jobs.
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Types of Job Design
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Job Rotation Jobs are still simple but employees
rotate from one job to another. Employees have
greater complexity as a result of the increased
task variety.
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Types of Job Design
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Job Enlargement A series of tasks are combined
into one broader job. Provides task variety and
more challenge for employees. Job
Enrichment Increases the degree of responsibility
a worker has over the job.
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Job Characteristics Model
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A model for job design developed by Richard
Hackman and Greg Oldham Looks at factors to
consider in designing jobs to making jobs more
interesting and motivating
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The Job Characteristics Model
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Source Adapted from J. R. Hackman and G. R.
Oldham, Work Redesign (Reading, MA
Addison-Wesley, 1980).
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The Job Characteristics Model
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Grouping Jobs into Organizational Structures
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• Functional Structure
• An organizational structure composed of all the
  departments that an organization requires to
  produce its goods or services.
• Advantages
• Encourages learning from others doing similar
  jobs.
• Easy for managers to monitor and evaluate
  workers.
• Disadvantages
• Difficult for departments to communicate with
  others.
• Preoccupation with own department and losing
  sight of organizational goals.

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Types of Divisional Structures
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Matrix Structure
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Product Team Structure