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Chapter 8. Manufacturing and Service Technologies.
Overview:
Chapter 8 discusses core manufacturing, including extremely complex technologies that can be dangerous or hazardous unless handled by high reliability organizations. Next, the chapter explores core service and noncore departmental technologies. The technology for the organization influences organizational structure and design for both manufacturing and service technologies. Differences in departmental technologies influence the design and management of organizational subunits. Finally, the chapter looks at how interdependence-the flow of materials and information among departments-affects organization design.
1. Define an organization's core technology and its influence on organization design.
2. Explain Woodward's model of technical complexity, structure, and performance.
3. Apply the distinctive qualities of organization design that enable organizations to operate exceptionally complex technologies with few breakdowns and extremely rare catastrophes.
4. Compare service technology and manufacturing technology in terms of their impact on organization design.
5. Define departmental technology and its relationship to department design.
6. Identify three types of interdependence and their respective structural priority.
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