Structuring and designing organizations
3 important questions on Structuring and designing organizations
What are the 6 basic elements of organization structure?
- Work specialization (a division of labour)
- Departmentalization (FPCGP, cross-functional teams)
- Authority + responsibility (chain of demand, authority vs power)
- Span of control (no more than 6)
- Centralization vs Decentralization
- Formalization (standardized)
What are today's organizational design challenges?
- Keeping employees connected
- Managing global structural issues
- Building a learning organization
- Desinging flexbile work arrangements
- telecommuting
- complex workweeks
- compressed workweek
- flextime
- job sharing
- contingent workers
What is a learning organization?
An organition that developed the capacity to continously learn, adapt and change
- Design: boudnaryless, teams, empowerment
- Information sharing: open, timely, accurate
- Leadership: shared vision, collaboration
- Organizational culture: strong mutual relationships, sense of community, caring, trust
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