ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE CHAPTER OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter‚ students should be able to: 1. Identify the six key elements that define an organization’s structure. 2. Describe a simple structure. 3. Explain the characteristics of a bureaucracy. 4. Describe a matrix organization. 5. Explain the characteristics of a “virtual” organization. 6. Summarize why managers want to create boundaryless organizations. 7. List the factors that favor different organization structures. 8. Explain
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Week 3 Team Reflection Summary MGT/230 Week two gave us an inside look on what the six steps are during the planning process. These steps are situational analysis‚ alternative goals and plans‚ goal and plan evaluation‚ goal and plan selection‚ implementation‚ and finally monitor and control. The step that Tina‚ Joanne‚ and Chris thought was most important in the planning process was the role of setting up alternative goals and plans. They believe it is always a good idea to have an alternative
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A NEW KIND OF STRUCTURE CASE STUDY Question 1: Describe and evaluate what Pfizer is doing? Pfizer is the world’s largest research -based pharmaceuticals firm and also a well-known pharmaceutical company. So their most of the work depends on research‚ developing strategies and innovate. They were trying to find a new way of system which makes their work more effective and efficient. Pfizer find out that their worker spends more time on business research and data analysis to the creation of documents
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Organizational Structure Defined An organizational structure is a composition that specifies a company’s hierarchical structure. There are various kinds of conformations that organizations can choose to build their business around. The organizational structure exemplifies the way in which control and business affairs have been appointed within the organization. Organizational structure encompasses the design of an organization though people positioning and responsibilities in order
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13 Organizational Structure LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Describe three types of coordination in organizational structures. 2. Justify the optimal span of control in a given situation. 3. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of centralization and formalization. 4. Distinguish organic from mechanistic organizational structures. 5. Identify and evaluate the six pure types of departmentalization. 6. Describe three variations of divisional structure
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Organizational Structure The United States Army is a hierarchical structure when it comes to chain of command. To fight a war the U.S. Army deploys a variety of specialized systems and soldiers to the battlefield. To do this the US Army has adopted the divisional organizational structure. The Army is divisional but is structured as a functional structure; Army‚ Corps‚ Division‚ Brigade‚ battalion‚ company‚ platoon‚ and squad (Powers‚ 2012). An Army with a divisional structure therefore has a subset
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A New Kind of Structure 1. Describe and evaluate what Pfizer is doing. What Jordan Cohen has created at Pfizer is a network organization. It’s a form of the boundaryless organization structure where company employees concentrate on the important aspects of the job‚ i.e. those elements that are related to the company’s core competencies‚ and other tasks are outsourced to another organization. 2. What structural implications—good and bad—does this approach have? (Think in terms of the six organizational
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Organizational structure is the way a business organizes their companies and employees so work and goals can be accomplished on a short and long term basis. They are determined and influenced by certain functions within the organization. These functions include marketing‚ finance‚ human resources‚ and operations. Also to determine the design of the structure for the organization your look at the geographic‚ customer-base‚ products and services offered‚ separate departments‚ and more. In this paper
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Much has been written on organizational structure and change management. Research commonly breaks down organizations into stages of growth or phases in a life cycle using varying factors and benchmarks. Depending on the article‚ the organization can be in any number of stages. However‚ there are definite commonalities that can be concluded amongst the differing research. For the purposes of our project‚ we focused on three articles that helped determine where STSM is and how our recommended changes
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is known as the organization structure formally defined by Wikipedia (2006) as‚ "the way in which the interrelated groups of an organization are constructed. From a managerial point of view the main concerns are ensuring effective communication and coordination." In respects to project management there are three primary organizational break downs they are functional structure‚ pure project structure‚ and matrix structure. We will take a look into each of these structures to better identify the similarities
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