Organization Theory Job Design

- Variance: Deviation with respect to a normal transformation process; (non-negligible effect on output, and requiring human intervention)

- Interdependence: Extent to which the performance of an activity depends on (is affected by) other activities, for; (resource pooling/sharing, and/ or input/output exchanges)

• - Unitary operations: sets of technically inseparable tasks > bound to division of labor
• - All activities vertically linked in a transformation chain
• - All the activities of support, maintenance, control and regulation of the analyzed transformation process

• - High Variance of activities and interdependence among them >
• -Less division of labor by phases and operations >
• - Organization by output/process/client