MGHD27H3 Chapter 14: Chapter 14
23 Dec 2010
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broadly refers to how an organization"s individuals and groups are put together or organized to accomplish work. organizational structure intervenes between goals and organizational accomplishments and thus influences organizational effectiveness. affects how effectively and efficiently group effort is coordinated. to achieve its goals, orgs have to do two very basic things: divide labour among its members and the coordinate what has been divided. organizational structure the manner in which an organization divides its labour into specific tasks and achieves coordination among these tasks. concerned primarily with the apportioning authority for planning and decision making. autonomy and control holding all other factors constant, the domain of decision making and authority is reduced as the number of levels in the hierarchy increases. communication the more the org is divided vertically, timely communication and coordination can become more difficult. up to a point, the increase specialization that comes with dividing horizontally would promote efficiency.
