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What is organizational structure: organizational structure: the manner in which an organization divides its labour into specific tasks and achieves coordination among these tasks. Vertical division of labour: apportioning authority for planning and decision making who gets to tell who what to do, ex. Marketing team needs project now to sell, r&d team know its takes time to develop a good product- prime example. Integrators: organizational members permanently installed between two departments that are in clear need of coordination useful for dealing with conflict between departments that are highly interdependent, have diverse goals, and operate in ambiguous environments. Integrator must be unbiased, identify strongly with organizational goals, and have expertise in the fields of the two departments. T raditional structural characteristics: span of control, the number of subordinates supervised by a manager, larger span=less potential for coordination by direct supervision, larger span for more routine tasks as less supervision is needed, flat vs.