ODB Chapter 9

The combination of skills, knowledge, abilities, techniques, materials, machines, computers, tools, and other equipment that people use to convert or change raw materials into valuable goods and services.

• Artificial intelligent

• Technology

• Competence

• High end equipment

Technology in functional/departmental level

• the personal skills, knowledge, and competences that individual women and men possess.

• the procedures and techniques that groups work out to perform their work create competences that constitute technology.

• the way an organization converts Inputs into outputs

Technology in individual level

• the personal skills, knowledge, and competences that individual women and men possess.

• the procedures and techniques that groups work out to perform their work create competences that constitute technology.

• the way an organization converts Inputs into outputs

Technology in organizational level

• the personal skills, knowledge, and competences that individual women and men possess.

• the procedures and techniques that groups work out to perform their work create competences that constitute technology.

• the way an organization converts Inputs into outputs

The organizational technology that uses conveyor belts and a standardized, progressive assembly process to manufacture goods.

• Mass production

• Craftswork

The technology that Involves groups of skilled workers who interact closely to produce

• Mass production

• Craftswork

Technical complexity: A measure of the extent to which a production process can be programmed so that it can be controlled and made predictable.

Technological imperative: The argument that technology determines structure.

Each technology is associated with a different structure because each technology presents different control and coordination problems.

They all are the concept from:

• James D. Thompson

• Charles Perrow

• Joan Woodward

Task variability: The number of exceptions—new or unexpected situations—that a person encounters while performing a task.

Task analyzability: The degree to which search activity is needed to solve a problem.

4 types of technology: Routine manufacturing, Craftswork, Engineering production, and Nonroutine research.

They all are the concept from:

• James D. Thompson

• Charles Perrow

• Joan Woodward

Task interdependence: The manner in which different organizational tasks are related to one another and the degree to which the performance of one person or department depends on and affects the performance of another.

From Mass Production to Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT): Dedicated machines, Fixed workers, Advanced manufacturing

technology

They all are the concept from:

• James D. Thompson

• Charles Perrow

• Joan Woodward

Materials technology is the technology that comprises machinery, other equipment, and computers. This concept is implemented in the following forms

• Flexible manufacturing

  technology

• Just-in-time inventory

  (JIT) system

• Computer-integrated

  manufacturing (CIM)

• None of them is correct