Organizational Structure

Elements
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Contingencies of Organizational Design
Forms of Departmentalization
Definition
Division of Labor
Coordiantion
MECHANISTICS AND ORGANIC STRUCTURESCENTRALIZATION: Formal decision authority it´s given for those in the top the OH. DESENTRALIZATION: Tend to be n larger org. ; authority disperse through the Org.

The number of people directly reporting tothe next level in the organizational hierarchy.
Involves creating routine patterns of behavior or output
STANDARIZATION
FORMAL HIERARCHY
Coordinated through direct supervision
Forms common mentalmodels
Sharing information about mutual tasks
INFORMAL COMMUNICATION
This increases work efficiency
Job specialization match people with their aptitudes in order to me well situated at workCOMPLEX: Many elements, the more complex, the more decentralized.
DYNAMIC: High rate of change. STABLE: Regular cycles of activity, predictable events.
EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
STRUCTURESCENTRALIZATION AND DESENTRALIZATION
It´s the subdivisión of work of specialized work assigned to several people.
Division of labor and the patterns of coordination, communication, work flow and formal power thatdirect organizational activities

SIMPLE
Employ few people. Depends on the owner´s direct supervision to coordinate activities.

HOSTILE: Face resource scarity and more competition inmarketplace.
DIVERSE: Greater variety of products or services, clients and regions. INTEGRATED: one client, once product, etc…
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TECHNOLOGY
ORGANIZATION SIZE
ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY
The way anOrg. positions itself in its setting in relation to its stakeholders, given it´s resources, capabilities and mission.
Mechanisms or process by which an org. turns outs their products or services.Work best with structure consisting in high formalization and centralization.
Larger Org, have different structures from smaller. As the number of employees increases, division of labor does. Larger...