Organizational structure • Organizational structure is the way in witch an organization’s activities (job tasks) are divided, organized and coordinated. • Organizational structure is the way in which and work, authority resources of an organization have been divided among members.
Types of organizational structure ▪ Entrepreneurial structure ▪ Bureaucratic structure ▪ Matrix structure
Entrepreneurial structure
Most organizations start life as an entrepreneurial structure in that they are brought into existence to extend the capability and capacity of an individual, who has discovered a way of meeting potential customer – or client need, but cannot achieve results without assistance. The two essential components of any dictionary definition of the word ‘entrepreneur’ are risk and initiative. The fact of having had the initiative and taken the risk gives the entrepreneur such dominance in the evolving organizations that everything depends on him and most activities of other members are either replicating or mirroring what the entrepreneur is doing. The initiative shown usually includes a powerful ingredient of expertise or specialized knowledge that nobody else can supply, and which is the secret of success.
Most people are employed in organizations that do not depend absolutely on the continuing, irreplaceable contribution of a single entrepreneur. The large oil companies most public sector undertakings like the National Health Service or the Civil service, High Street banks, schools, colleges, airline companies, insurance companies have a quite different type of drive to their activities. Other types of organization appear to need, however, the strong centralization of the entrepreneurial form