Christodoulos Karaolis
HND BUSINESS
LONDON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND FINANCE
30/4/14
Organisations and Behaviour Organization as (Krynke 1998, p. 3) defines, is the criteria by which employees under their managers direction pursue their goals. Organization according to (Krynke 1998, p. 3) is majorly influenced by the organization structure. These structures define how activities in an organization are organized, divided and coordinated. In addition (Krynke 1998, p. 3), indicate that the key formal relations for organizational structure are accountability, authority, and responsibility. These three concepts enable an organization to bring together their workers, duties and other resources necessary to ensure high performance in the organizations. Krynke 1998, p. 3) asserts that organization structure is the outline for formalizing these co-related concepts in an organization. This indicates that organizational structures provides the means for illustrating and communicating to the organizations employees and defining each and everyone distinct responsibility, accountability and authority. Whereas prior research indicates that there are numerous variations of organizational structure depending on varied factors, (Montana & Charnov 1993, p. 163) note that frequently discussed organizational structures are few, this is because of their input in several organizations. These include, line organizational structure, staff organizational and the committee organizational structure.
1.1 Different organizational structures Comparing the three popular structure, we note that line organizational is the simplest of them. It has all the work directed to the overall coordinator of an organization. The single coordinator has direct vertical links connecting to the different levels of organization management. Due to its domineering nature, this structure promotes greater decision-making and understanding between the manager and their
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