Chapter 10 Organisational Structure and Design Robbins‚ Bergman‚ Stagg‚ Coulter: Management 4e © 2006 Pearson Education Australia LO6 Students will evaluate two types of organisational structures and recommend a structure for a given situation Key elements a) Hierarchy and departmentalisation economic growth b) Centralisation versus decentralisation c) Mechanistic versus organic d) Span of control Robbins‚ Bergman‚ Stagg‚ Coulter: Management 4e © 2006 Pearson Education Australia 2 LEARNING
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their parts such as staff‚ profit‚ products‚ strategy‚ technology‚ environment‚ structure and culture. These parts or factors can directly contribute to the strengths or weaknesses of an organisation and they are all interrelated. This essay will examine organisational structure and organisational culture and the influence mechanistic and organic structures have on organisational culture. Organisational structure‚ as defined by Hodge‚ Anthony & Gales (1996)‚ is “the sum total of the way in which
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1 Understand organisational structures 1.1 Explain the differences between the private sector‚ public sector and voluntary sector A private sector is usually composed of organisations which are privately owned and not part of a government; whereas a public sector is composed of organisations that are owned by the government and voluntary sectors are composed of individuals of who seek help in charitable activities. Private sectors include corporations such as partnerships and charities‚ like the
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www.thetimes100.co.uk Introduction KBR (Kellogg‚ Brown and Root) is a Texas-based global corporation. It employs over 57‚000 people worldwide and is a leading engineering‚ construction and services company. It supports the energy‚ hydrocarbon‚ government services and civil infrastructure sectors. KBR’s business is based on project management activities. This means it works with clients‚ providing a wide range of specialist expertise and experience. Examples of projects that KBR supports include:
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that cause their problem. 2. Efficiency and Effectiveness ●What is efficiency and effectiveness? Efficiency：Peter Drucker definition on efficiency is “Concerned with doing things right.” This point is focus on using the minimum resources to create the maximum outputs. It emphasis on the analysis of resource using. So it also can be explain like” Getting the most output from the least amount of inputs.” Effectiveness：Peter Drucker definition on effectiveness is “doing the right things.” This
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTINGS Introduction Most of the world’s work is done through organization – groups of people who work together to accomplish one or more objectives. In doing its work‚ an organization uses resources – labor‚ materials‚ various services‚ building and equipment. These resources need to be financed‚ or paid for to work effectively‚ the people in organization need information about the amounts to these resources‚ the means of financing them‚ and the results achieved
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balances too little and too much regulation. -Subordinates work: if all subordinates do similar tasks or the task is substantially automated or complex work‚ posting time-consuming problems suggests a narrow span of control. Multifunctional Team /Structure: Group composed of members from two or more departments or functional areas working together to solve a problem or handle a situation that requires capabilities‚ knowledge‚ and training not available from any one source. See also multidisciplinary
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Organizational Structure of McDonald’s McDonalds is one of the largest food chain companies in the world and has much strength in its company that allows it to build a functional structure. A McDonald’s resturant is operated by a franchise‚ an afilliate or the corporation itself. McDonald’s has a multi-level organisational structure‚ which is headed by the CEO and the board of directors. The board is made up of 13 members‚ 11 of whom are directors. The CEO leads a group of line of managers
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Effectiveness is more important than efficiency? Joel Fleming – Affirmative The following theory was first propounded in ’ (Samson‚ D & Daft 2012‚ p. 17) “Effectiveness is the degree to which the organisation achieves a stated goal. It means that the organisation succeeds in accomplishing what it tries to do. Organisational effectiveness means providing a product or service that customers value. Organisational efficiency refers to the amount of resources used to achieve an organisational goal
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This is an organisational structure of the Service Office of IKEA Netherlands which is located in Amsterdam and has 150 employees. The managers of every IKEA store in the Netherlands report to the Service Office. The Service Office has as goal to support the management of all the IKEA stores in the Netherlands‚ it doesn’t have as a goal to check how the stores are being managed. At the Service Office the Retail Manager is the boss. The following managers report directly back to him:
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