Organizationl Development
ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE & DESIGN
Introduction;
The mechanics of how people organize themselves when in groups has been a topic of great interests to theorists and practitioners alike. The theorists can be placed into two groups: One group approaching the study of organizational structure from sociological view point e.g Weber(1947),Morgan while the others taking managerial perspective e.g. Mintzberg, Pugh and Handy. The paper is intended to discuss organizational structure with bias to management and business perspective.
Definition of an Organization structure
Mintzberg (1979) defined organization structure as the sum total of the ways in which it divides its labour into distinct tasks and then achieves coordination between them.
Cole (1995) defines organizational structure as an intangible web of relationships between people, their shared purpose and the tasks they set themselves to achieve those purpose. According to Cole, the prime purpose of structure is to achieve an effective balance between the division of tasks and responsibilities on one hand, and the need to coordinate individuals efforts and roles on the other, the understanding of the members of an organization acquire about their own structures may be as much based on unwritten evidence and informal arrangements as on any formal statements of rules, procedures and role descriptions.
The Purpose of an organizational structure
The organizational structure(OS) is acknowledging a group’s need to allocate tasks and responsibilities between members. It also identifies and classifies particular roles and levels of responsibilities. The OS recognition of the need to coordinate activities and roles once they have been allocated. It is also an attempt to facilitate and regulates the following:
The flow of information in the group in an organization
The decision – making process is likely to serve in some measures as means of resolving differences or problems between members in an organization.
The
Introduction;
The mechanics of how people organize themselves when in groups has been a topic of great interests to theorists and practitioners alike. The theorists can be placed into two groups: One group approaching the study of organizational structure from sociological view point e.g Weber(1947),Morgan while the others taking managerial perspective e.g. Mintzberg, Pugh and Handy. The paper is intended to discuss organizational structure with bias to management and business perspective.
Definition of an Organization structure
Mintzberg (1979) defined organization structure as the sum total of the ways in which it divides its labour into distinct tasks and then achieves coordination between them.
Cole (1995) defines organizational structure as an intangible web of relationships between people, their shared purpose and the tasks they set themselves to achieve those purpose. According to Cole, the prime purpose of structure is to achieve an effective balance between the division of tasks and responsibilities on one hand, and the need to coordinate individuals efforts and roles on the other, the understanding of the members of an organization acquire about their own structures may be as much based on unwritten evidence and informal arrangements as on any formal statements of rules, procedures and role descriptions.
The Purpose of an organizational structure
The organizational structure(OS) is acknowledging a group’s need to allocate tasks and responsibilities between members. It also identifies and classifies particular roles and levels of responsibilities. The OS recognition of the need to coordinate activities and roles once they have been allocated. It is also an attempt to facilitate and regulates the following:
The flow of information in the group in an organization
The decision – making process is likely to serve in some measures as means of resolving differences or problems between members in an organization.
The