Organisational structures
Two main types of organisational structure
1. Hierachial structure 2. Flat structure
The main hieranchial structure has many layers of management and at times this can cause information to be lost or changed while passing to one person to another. This type of structure is like a wise based triangle and every person in it has a line manager who is responsible for the work done by him, this makes communication slow and getting things done takes a great deal of effort, modern companies use a flatter structure where it is possible to access your superior directly. This new system came from the Japanese who encouraged much more informal communication between different levels of workers. The Japanese concept is that we are all in it together no delighted parking and everybody eats in the same dining room, allowing different levels of the workforce to cumminicate informally together
Chain of command
In structure one there is a very long chain of command, because in order to communicate orders or ideas workers have to go through many levels before the information reaches the correct person. The chain of command in a flat structure is very short and there is less chance for communication to be mixed up and to contact the right person for the job. In the traditional structure one it is very difficult to manage change because it's so traditional and the process of moving from moving from structure 1 to 2 is called 'delayering' it means unecersary structures are removed. The process of delayering is painful as often it results in redundencies which can get the business a bad name unless they do it in a sympathetic manor. Finally hieranchial structures can demotivated the people at the bottom as they cannot see a clear way forward. In the control structure teams are formed that compete against each other to be the best, the competitive instinct motivates them.
Problems with the flat structure, the major problem with this structure is that it has a
1. Hierachial structure 2. Flat structure
The main hieranchial structure has many layers of management and at times this can cause information to be lost or changed while passing to one person to another. This type of structure is like a wise based triangle and every person in it has a line manager who is responsible for the work done by him, this makes communication slow and getting things done takes a great deal of effort, modern companies use a flatter structure where it is possible to access your superior directly. This new system came from the Japanese who encouraged much more informal communication between different levels of workers. The Japanese concept is that we are all in it together no delighted parking and everybody eats in the same dining room, allowing different levels of the workforce to cumminicate informally together
Chain of command
In structure one there is a very long chain of command, because in order to communicate orders or ideas workers have to go through many levels before the information reaches the correct person. The chain of command in a flat structure is very short and there is less chance for communication to be mixed up and to contact the right person for the job. In the traditional structure one it is very difficult to manage change because it's so traditional and the process of moving from moving from structure 1 to 2 is called 'delayering' it means unecersary structures are removed. The process of delayering is painful as often it results in redundencies which can get the business a bad name unless they do it in a sympathetic manor. Finally hieranchial structures can demotivated the people at the bottom as they cannot see a clear way forward. In the control structure teams are formed that compete against each other to be the best, the competitive instinct motivates them.
Problems with the flat structure, the major problem with this structure is that it has a