Organizational Design and Technology

Organizational Design and Technology

Introduction

The importance of technology is visible in both new as in the old organizations and also in their products, machinery, tools and services. Among the benefits of the technology can be cited increased productivity, higher living standards, greater availability of leisure time and a greater variety of products. The foray into technology includes inventions, techniques and knowledge accumulation mainly organized in the manner of doing things. However, his greatest influence targets the way they are designed, produced and executed. The benefits of technology must be weighed against the problems associated with technological advances, such as information overload, pollution of air and water, the influence of energy and loss of privacy because of the application of technology computing. It therefore requires a balanced approach to take advantage of technology while reducing to a minimum some undesirable side effects.

Discussion

The organizational design corresponds to a complex set of roles, tasks, relationship and responsibility that are not immutable and have their behavior influenced by technical variables, individual, social and organizational are from:

The environments of organizations: processing of the entries of general and task environments

The characteristics of organizations: the functions performed to achieve the outputs and outcomes

The technology used by the organization, how the organization performs its tasks

The criteria for defining organizational effectiveness: how are compared the results anticipated and achieved

The role of technology on the design of an organization is perhaps the most widely researched topic. It has been established by many researchers that technology plays a pivotal role in organizational design. For example, Joan Woodward argued that differences in the organization of work and behavior at work (the number of levels of management, area supervisors' responsibilities, the division of functions between the experts, the clarity with which the roles and functions are defined, the amount of written communication, ...