Structure: fit for purpose
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Weber's 3 pure leadership styles
- Traditional or hereditary: obey because it's how things have always been done
- Legal-rational or bureaucratic: authority gained from occupied place, rules and regulations
Influences of the effectiveness of coordination
- Chain of command: chain of reporting relationships, describes hierarchical structures
- Centralization: more centralization provides control, decentralization -> quicker decisions
Mintzberg's 5 types of structure
2. Machine bureaucracy: formalized and standardized, specialized staff, older organization, stable environments
3. Professional bureaucracy: standardized skills, highly trained staff, stable but complex environments
4. Divisionalized: decentralized decision-making, larger and older organizations, multinational
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Multidivisional form structure
- Attempting to decentralized without allowing one division to dominate
- Providing management focus within a certain division
- Enhancing coordination across organization
- Divisional accountability that doesn't promote inter-division competition
Team project based structure
- Competence: which competencies
- Trust: HR provides structures that enables trust
- Change: facilitating change
- People: responsibility for career development
Networks and virtual organizations
- Vertical disaggregation, independent organizations undertake functions
- Brokers: functions integrated by broker
- Market mechanisms: contract and payments hold functions together
- Full disclosure information systems: trust is key
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