MGT 3640 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Work Hard, Play Hard, Machismo, Stereotype
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Indicates the kind of hierarchy within the organization. Small companies are flexible and can engage the whole staff in a rage of activities: business environment. Structure of a large-scale organization will need to be more decentralized if it sells its products in many markets. Internal requirements such as technology, types of activities, and strategy. External forces such as economic conditions, host governments, product-market characteristics. Multinational corporations must take into account: physical distance between headquarters and subsidiaries, mutual relations, legislation of countries where subsidiaries operate, need for co-ordination and integration is greater than in domestic organizations. 3 basic types of structures: traditional hierarchal. Staff is divided according to function, product, service, or location: several lines of reporting. Structure takes form of a project team: matrix structure, network structure. At the head of each division, there is a senior-level executive who shares responsibility for the area with the hr manager. Headquarters maintains control of "strategic planning" and operations: functional structure.
