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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Introduction What is organizing? Organizing means arranging the activities in such a way that they systematically contribute to enterprise goals. An organization consists of people whose specialized tasks are coordinated to contribute to the organization’s goals. The usual way of depicting an organization is with an organization chart. It shows the structure of the organization; specifically‚ the title of each manager’s position and‚ by means of connecting lines‚ who is accountable to whom and
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SPAN OF CONTROL Corporations often see a shift in executive teams throughout the course of their existence. Often times when during a company merger‚ acquisition‚ or a vote by the Board of Directors to replace the company’s leadership‚ a new style of management will emerge. Different leaders have various ideas on how the management of the company is to be handled. Some CEO’s like to have a small executive team‚ with separate areas of the business combined into segments and receive reporting through
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element In generally used computers one can find that there are four basic computer elements following are the elements. (1) ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit): The ALU is the digital circuit that is able to perform different types of functions‚ such as Addition‚ Subtraction‚ and Multiplication etc. (2) Control Unit: The control unit is the part of CPU (central processing unit) or other devices that performs the duty to direct its operations‚ the control unit is just like a finite state machine
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Organizational Structure & Departmentalizatio n Impress-Newtex Composite Textiles Ltd Company Profile Impress-Newtex Composite Textiles Limited • Name of the company: Impress-Newtex Composite Textiles Ltd (INCTL). • INCTL is jointly owned by the Impress Group(owns Channel-i too) and the Newtex Group‚ Impress having acquired controlling 5l% stake in the company In 2009‚ from the Newtex Group‚ the original sponsors that established the companies. Impress Group‚ a reputed and diversified group
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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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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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and mangers an organization has. The span of control refers only to direct reports‚ rather than to an entire corporate hierarchy. Even though a CEO may technically control hundreds of employees‚ his or her span of control would only include the department heads or functional managers who reported to the CEO directly. Span of control is also widely employed in large organizations like the military‚ government agencies‚ and educational institution. Span of control varies between narrow/small to wider/lager
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What is organizational structure An organizational structure consists of activities such as task allocation‚ coordination and supervision‚ which are directed towards the achievement of organizational aims. It can also be considered as the viewing glass or perspective through which individuals see their organization and its environment. Organizations are a variant of clustered entities. An organization can be structured in many different ways‚ depending on their objectives. The structure of an
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access to The Academy of Management Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 41.13.52.46 on Tue‚ 23 Jul 2013 08:32:37 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Review 1980‚ Vol.5‚ No. 1‚49-64 Academyof Management Structure Organization A Critical and Performance: Review1 DAN R. DALTON Indiana University WILLIAM TODOR D. The Ohio State University MICHAELJ. SPENDOLINI GORDON J. FIELDING LYMANW. PORTER University of California- Irvine We examine the literature
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