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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Organizational Structure Pamela Caragianis MGT/230 Management Theory and Practice June 27‚ 2012 University of Phoenix - Scott Jarrett Organizational Structure Graybar Electric Company was founded in 1869 by Enos Barton and Elisha Gray who formed Gray & Barton. For the past eighty years Graybar has been one of the largest employee owned companies in North America. Today Graybar is a Fortune 500 corporation. Graybar is headed by a Board of Directors‚ all of which are all current employees
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How does the main idea relate to organizational structure? Organizational structure can be defined as the hierarchical arrangement of authority‚ communication rights and duties of an organization. The structure of an organization depends on the organizational objectives and strategies. In our article “Go your own way”‚ we can identify that the structure used is decentralized. In a decentralized structure the decision making power is distributed and departments have different degree of interdependence
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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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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Organizational structure refers to the way that an organization arranges people and jobs so that its work can be performed and its goals can be met. When a work group is very small and face-to-face communication is frequent‚ formal structure may be unnecessary‚ but in a larger organization decisions have to be made about the delegation of various tasks. Thus‚ procedures are established that assign responsibilities for various functions. It is these decisions that determine
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Organizational Structure Organizational Structure The Army and the organizational structure that makes it run on the surface is a simple one. It is a Hierarchal/ Chain of Command structure‚ the orders come from levels so far above those of us at my level that we receive them in the form of Fragmented Orders (FRAGOS)‚ Warning Orders (WARNOS)‚ Military Personnel Messages (MILPER Messages) or simple word of mouth from the First Sergeant or my Platoon Sergeant. These are the only two levels
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Running head: Organizational Structure Organizational Structure Paper Team C University of Phoenix MGT 330 – Theory‚ Practices & Application Instructor: Fred Schaum July 13‚ 2010 Abstract Wal-Mart is one of the largest corporations around the globe. Wal-Mart serves customers and members more than 200 million times per week at more than 8‚446 retail units under 55 different banners in 15 countries. With fiscal year 2010 sales of $405 billion‚ Wal-Mart employs more than 2.1 million
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Organizational Structure of Chick-fil-A MGT 230 Tamitha Sprenger October 4‚ 2012 Charlene Beamon Organizational Structure of Chick-fil-A One key responsibility of working as a manager is to recognize the best way to organize and run an organization. A manager who can work with and put into motion the structure and plans of a
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Organizational Structure Organizational structure plays an important role in day-to-day functions of an organization. The delegation of authority‚ work specialization‚ and employee reporting framework are some of the elements that help determine what the organizational structure should be. An efficient structure will facilitate decision making and smooth the span of control or scope managers have over operations. The first and most common structure type that managers would
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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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