2. Key parts of Organization
Type of Decentralization
Together they can build different design
configurations to fit the contingencies in
the environment
Organizational
agility, stability
Reportings and
operations
Key Roles,
responsibilities,
and staffing
Prime coordinating mechanism
7. The greater the number of task
differentiation and occupational
professionalism of units…
….the greater the rate of innovation
Complexity
8. Requisite variety is an aspiration of
organisations to deal with the diversity of
problems the world throws
Requisite Variety
Requisite variety can be achieved
through making…… internal and
external environmental scanning to
be a responsibility of all members
9. Slack
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Organisational slack is the resources available to
the firm which are not committed to a necessary
expenditure
Organisational slack about something extra,
about a certain surplus, or cushion
10. Production
The higher the emphasis on quantity vs
quality, the lower the rate of
organisational innovation