The Division of Labor in Organizations: A Book Review
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According to Gibson, Inacevich, and Donnelly in Organizations: Behavior, structure and Processes, specialization and division of labor concerns the extent to which jobs are specialized (Gibson, Inacevich, Donnelly, 476). Specialization refers to different units of labor being used differently in the production process. Henry Ford who perfected specialization on the assembly line process used some types of labor to produce only one particular type of output, while others were used to produce different products. Henry Ford had put into action the principle observed centuries earlier by the economist Adam Smith, that specialization of labor often has the effect of increasing total output. A hierarchical organization is the dominant form of business organization in the United States. It may be useful to visualize a business hierarchy as a pyramid in which the people nearest the top have more power than those nearest the bottom. Hierarchical organization are a common way to structure a group of people, where members chiefly communicate with their immediate supervisor
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