Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Normative Model for Organizations: April 1970
A review of conceptual and formal models suggests that organization structure can be described by sets of tasks and resources upon which are defined several types of relations, such as, task interdependence, coordination policy, reward structure, information flows, and informal coalitions. This paper translates the notions of task, resource, and hierarchical coordination into an empirically testable model of organization. The simplest form of the model constructs a least cost hierarchy to provide the coordination manpower required by a given network of inter dependent tasks. A more elaborate form of the model treats resource assignments as variable and computes coordination requirements as a function of task uncertainty, skill mix, and type of task interdependence. The.
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