elements of organization

• location & environment
• strategy and goal
• work and technology
• formal (organizational charts and job descriptions) and informal (culture, climate, unofficial power structures, social networks and friend circles) structures
• people

organized anarchies (high degree of goal ambiguity, decisionmaking process is unclean, participation to decision making is fluid)→ loosely coupled systems (attempt to implement high degree of standardization amongst workers) → professional bureaucracies (most common in complex & stable environments)

ambiguity, client focused missions, highly professionalized staff, unclear decision making process, environmental vulnerability

academic affairs (core of organization) → faculty organized into departments which are lead by deans, who report to chief academic officer (provost or vice president of academic affairs,)

athletics

auxiliary services (operate several revenue producing activities- bookstores, dinings halls, resident halls...)

finance and administration

facilities management

institutional development (maintain communications and marketing)

student affairs

governance models→

structural (bureaucratic), relational (collegial), and legislative (political) frameworks