1. CHAPTER TWELVE DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS
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2. Key Ideas Organizations differ widely along a number of dimensions.
These differences affect clients and employees.
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3. Purpose
The purpose of an organization provides the rationale for the organization’s existence:
Organizations sanctioned by the law
Organizations with service goals
Organizations arising from social movements
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4. Structures of Governance
Organizational structure defines the way members, tasks, and units relate to one another:
Bureaucracies
Project teams
Functional structures
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5. Internal Power Relations
Organizations have overt and covert power arrangements:
Traditional authority
Charismatic authority
Rational/legal authority
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