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
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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
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3.2 Operational processes
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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
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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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