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Organising and Organisations (Organisational Structure (Types (Functional…
Organising and Organisations
Organisations are social entities, purposefully constructed to achieve organisational objectives that are performance managed
Organising
It is the use of the divison of labour and authority to get work done
one of Henri Fayol’s 5 key functions of management, the other 4 being planning, staffing, leading and controlling
The purpose of organising is to coordinate the work activities and social interactions of employees.
Organisational Structure
to co-ordinate the activities of resources.
Max Weber bureaucratic model
6 elements: Division of Labour; Hierarchy; Selection; Career Orientation; Formalisation and Impersonality.
Types
Functional divides work by specialisation/ function
Products structures the organisation around the types of products
A matrix based structure has employees based in a functional department and another e.g. a project team for a specific objective
Network organisations are flatter with a decentralised flexible approach - ICT
Boundary-less structures. No hierarchy
Structural Configuration
is the shape and size
Division of Labour/ Job Specialisation
Spans of Control
Narrow or Wide
Hierarchy
Flat or Tall
Departmentalisation
functional, product, geographical and mixed.
Organograms
hierarchical bureaucratic structure
division of labour, a narrow span of control, a tall hierarchy and functional departmentalisation.
models which are seen to be too rigid for a complex and changing business environment
Public Sector