Summary: The Structure Of An Organization

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  • 1 Definitions

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  • Three types of organisations to be used

    Institutional, instrumental, and functional sense
  • 2 The organisation and its environment

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  • What is Governance structure and management level?

    Hour-glass model
  • What are Tall and Flat organisations?

    Tall is with a lot of sub structures and flat with only some
  • What is a strategic decision?

    When it will impact the organisational objectives, goals, or even policy matters
  • What is operational decision?

    Are undertaken by lower or mid-level managers that relate to the business’s daily operations or functions. 
  • 3 Design and structure of an organisation

  • What is the design and structure of an organisation?

    • Grouping of activities to be performed into functions, duties and tasks of departments, work groups and individual employees
    • Determining on decison-making authority / relations
    • Implementation of communication channels and mechanisms, guidelines and procedures to make communication and co-ordination possible
  • 3.2 Operational processes

  • How to support the operational processes?

    Human resource management, logistics, and information management
  • 3.3 Control /Structure

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  • Who will do what and how should it be co-ordinated?

    • Division of work
    • Tasks/autohority/responsability
    • Grouping tasks
    • Projects groups!!!
    • Scope of control
  • What is the functional relations?

    HR-department: HR-head manager, under which we find HR managers --> hierarchical structure
  • What is horizontal relations?

    Focus on skill proficiency rather than management hierarchy. Priority of project delivering. All employees same opportunities etc.
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