Orgn Structure
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The document discusses organizational structure and design. It describes organizational structure as the formal system of tasks and reporting relationships that coordinates employees to achieve goals. Organizational design is the process that managers use to make structuring choices. The document outlines different types of divisional structures like product, geographic, and market structures. It also covers matrix structures that group people by both function and product. Product team and network structures are presented as alternatives that use cross-functional teams or strategic alliances.
Orgn Structure
- 1. Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.McGraw-Hill/Irwin Designing Organizational Structure
- 2. 7-2 Learning Objectives • How an organizational structure is determined? • What are the roles of an organisational structure?
- 3. 7-3 Designing Organizational Structure •Organizational structure: Formal system of task and reporting relationships that coordinates and motivates organizational members so that they work together to achieve organizational goals •Organizational design: Process by which managers make specific organizing choices that result in a particular kind of organizational structure
- 5. 7-5 Divisional Structures •Organizational structure composed of separate business units within which are the functions that work together to produce a specific product for a specific customer •Product structure: Each product line or business is handled by a self-contained division
- 7. 7-7 Divisional Structures •Geographic structure: Each region of a country or area of the world is served by a self-contained division
- 8. 7-8 Market Structure •Market structure: Each kind of customer is served by a self-contained division; also called customer structure •Matrix structure: An organizational structure that simultaneously groups people and resources by function and product
- 11. 7-11 Product Team Design Structure •Product team structure: Members are permanently assigned to a cross-functional team and report only to the product team manager or to one of his direct subordinates •Cross-functional team: Group of managers brought together from different departments to perform organizational tasks
- 12. 7-12 Network Structures •Network structure: Series of strategic alliances that an organization creates with suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors to produce and market a product • It allows firms to bring resources together in a boundary-less organization