Chapter 9: Organizational Structure and Design 9.1 Designing Organizational Structure Discuss the traditional and contemporary views of work specialization‚ chain of command‚ and span of control. Describe each of the five forms of departmentalization. Differentiate authority‚ responsibility and unity of command. Explain how centralization/decentralization and formalization are used in organizational design. Work specialization: dividing work activities into separate job task whereby individual
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» 1. Education Organic Structure Vs. Mechanistic Structure Published December 28‚ 2007 by: Les View Profile | Follow | Add to Favorites More:Organizational StructureGroupthink Implementing a new sales process will take time and dedication. With our company utilizing the same processes for so long we are bound to see some types of resistance when change is implemented. Organizational structures can be sorted between organic and mechanistic. Organizational cultural also plays a big role
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are few types of organizational structure in term of how well the structures satisfy the trade between specialization and coordination. The simple or entrepreneurial structure exists when the owner is also the manager. The organizational structure major strengths will be vision and flexibility. And‚ the increasing specialization functional needs to bring in by manager. For the functional structure‚ jobs or tasks are group together according to functional specialization. This structure can promote through
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Explain how different types of organisational structure may affect organisational behaviour. Support your analysis by referring to the literature and by comparing and contrasting two different organisations. Just as the environment impacts each individuals behaviour it is typical of an organisation’s structure to impact its employee’s behaviour. There have been many different studies which illustrate the impact of the organisation’s structure on human behaviour‚ such as the studies of Henry Ford
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Turkey had passed through a remarkable change operation. During this transformation‚ the mail goal was to redefine both culture and the organizational structure of the bank. Contrary to the culture present in Turkey at that time‚ Mr. Öngör and the management board accomplished creating a new culture in GB. Öngör had achieved changing the organizational structure and culture‚ but the only thing to do is to keep it effectively so that after his retirement GB would not go backwards to the old way of
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Assessing corporate culture Cisco Systems MBA 501: Organizational Dynamics and Leadership Professor: Dr. Bruce Hiebert Gurjot Singh Friday‚ April 09‚ 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 3 2 About Cisco Systems 3 2.1 Vision‚ mission 3 2.2 Slogans‚ legends and myths 5 2.3 Organizational structure 6 3 Human Network and leadership 8 3.1 Employees and rewards 8 3.2 Training and teaching 12 3.3 Leaders’ functions and Change management
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Project Management Organizational Structures Paper MGT437/Univesity of Phoenix April 25‚ 2011 Project Management Organizational Structures Paper An organization must align its activities with the company’s objectives. This entails employees coordinating functions through strong clear communication channels. The way in which work is divided dictates the organizational culture of the company. This paper will define three types of organizational structures; functional‚ pure project and
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INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………….….. 3 2.0 TYPES OF ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE………...………………….……. 5 2.1 Functional Structure……………………………………………………………...… 6 2.2 Geographical Structure………………………………………………………....… 11 2.3 Matrix Structure………………………………………………………………....... 14 2.4 Product Structure…………………………………………………...…………….. 16 3.0 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………...…... 18 References………………………………………………………………………………. 20 1.0 INTRODUCTION An organization able to be described as management structure that determine relationships between functions
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Big-company/small-company hybrid definition and examples Organization life cycle o Stages of life cycle Entrepreneurial Collectivity Formalization Elaboration o Identify crisis at each stage* Organizational characteristics during life cycle o Pay close attention to structure and goals Bureaucracy o Rules and procedures o Specialization and division of labor o Hierarchy of authority o Technically qualified personnel o Separate position from position holder o
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Merck & Co Case Analysis 1. Problem Statement – Merck & Co ‘s stock market performance had trailed that of competitors in light of the concerns that company was not able to adapt to the changes in environment where as competitors was using their aggressive marketing functional unit as their competitive edge. Company also failed to take advantage of its own market opportunities especially the outcome of aftermarket studies of drugs they launched .Company was very late in adapting to
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