Army Organizational Structure
Army Organizational Structure
1. What is the organizational design of US Army?
They have a matrix structure. Here the different functions are interlinked with different subsystems.
There are three main subsystem in the organization: • Production subsystem: Secure raw material from the resource environment and convert it into the intermediate goods required by Combat subsystem. Its further subsystems are: ← Training and doctrine command ← Army Materiel Command ← Installation operations ← Functional Commands ← HQDA support specialty commands • • Combat subsystem: Convert the Army's intermediate products into mission-ready forces. • Integrating subsystem: it integrates all the subsystem together. It decides what is to be produced or accomplished by the whole system
2. Describe the organizations structure with respect to all the dimensions.
Complexity: The organization is complex in structure. The structure is divided horizontally according to the functions and the subsystems. There is a army's designated MACOMs associated to the various subsystems
Centralization: The decision making is centralized ultimately
Formalization: The organization is formal in nature with lots of rules and procedures used to integrate the system. The jobs are standardized.
Integration: It is well integrated through rules and procedures, plans and orders and establishment of task forces.
3. Why does the army feel the need for realignment in the structure? The realignment focuses on changes to major command relationships within existing ARSTAF, creation of new ARSTAF positions and realignment of Field Operating Agencies.
• Army feels the organization structure actually complicates the achievement of the required differentiation and performance. Like ARSEC and ARSTAF directorates seems to be duplicating each other. ← This is mainly found because of job not clearly defined
1. What is the organizational design of US Army?
They have a matrix structure. Here the different functions are interlinked with different subsystems.
There are three main subsystem in the organization: • Production subsystem: Secure raw material from the resource environment and convert it into the intermediate goods required by Combat subsystem. Its further subsystems are: ← Training and doctrine command ← Army Materiel Command ← Installation operations ← Functional Commands ← HQDA support specialty commands • • Combat subsystem: Convert the Army's intermediate products into mission-ready forces. • Integrating subsystem: it integrates all the subsystem together. It decides what is to be produced or accomplished by the whole system
2. Describe the organizations structure with respect to all the dimensions.
Complexity: The organization is complex in structure. The structure is divided horizontally according to the functions and the subsystems. There is a army's designated MACOMs associated to the various subsystems
Centralization: The decision making is centralized ultimately
Formalization: The organization is formal in nature with lots of rules and procedures used to integrate the system. The jobs are standardized.
Integration: It is well integrated through rules and procedures, plans and orders and establishment of task forces.
3. Why does the army feel the need for realignment in the structure? The realignment focuses on changes to major command relationships within existing ARSTAF, creation of new ARSTAF positions and realignment of Field Operating Agencies.
• Army feels the organization structure actually complicates the achievement of the required differentiation and performance. Like ARSEC and ARSTAF directorates seems to be duplicating each other. ← This is mainly found because of job not clearly defined