Professional Documents
Culture Documents
3. The researcher conducts comparative research which is concerned with the similarities, dissimilarities and consequences of various organization structures and approaches to designing organizations.
An Organization Chart
Structural Components
Organization Structure
Departmentalization
Span of Control
Height of Hierarchy
Coordination
Internal Factors
Formalization
Centralization
Complexity
Span of Control
Span of Control is the number of employees who report to a single manager or supervisor.
Worthy/Sears, continued
Tall stores were characterized by relatively high turnover among employees, significant numbers of grievances, low employee morale. Flat stores were characterized by low rates of turnover, few grievances, and moderate morale.
Simple Organization
Entrepreneur Employees
Departmentalization
Departmentalization is the lateral (horizontal) differentiation of the organization in departments.
Departments are organizational units that share a common supervisor and common resources, are jointly responsible for performance, and tend to identify and collaborate with one another.
Bases of Departmentalization
1. Organizational function 2. Product 3. Process 4. Geography or territory 5. Customer
Functional Structure
President
VP - Marketing VP - Operations VP - HRM
Functional structure is a design that groups similar or related occupational specialties together.