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ANNOTATED OUTLINE
1.
INTRODUCTION
Designing
organizational
structure
involves
the
process
of
2.
3.
structure.
This
process
involves
chain
centralization/
of
command,
span
decentralization,
of
and
tasks.
Most
of
todays
managers
regard
work
2.
Product
departmentalization
groups
jobs
by
product line.
3.
4.
5.
6.
b.
Cross-functional
teams,
which
are
work
2.
3.
E.
how
many
levels
and
managers
an
organization
will
have.
(See
Exhibit
10-3
and
What
determines
the
ideal
span
of
control?
tasks,
subordinates,
the
the
physical
degree
to
proximity
which
of
standardized
F.
2.
3.
4.
5.
number
of
factors
influence
the
degree
of
2.
3.
4.
3.
by
high
specialization,
rigid
in
decision
making
by
lower-level
employees.
2.
3.
B.
Contingency Factors
Appropriate organizational structure depends upon four
contingency variables:
1.
strategies,
they
must
change
their
Most
current
strategy-structure
frameworks
2)
and
tight
controls
of
the
mechanistic organization.
3)
both
mechanistic
and
organic
organizations.
2.
3.
Every
organization
uses
some
form
of
Joan
Woodwards
study
of
structure
and
have
increasing
levels
of
2)
3)
c.
findings.
4.
4.
organizations.
Exhibit
10-8
summarizes
the
departmentalization,
wide
spans
of
control,
Strengths
of
the
simple
structure
are
its
is
most
effective
when
used
in
small
organizations.
2.
more
contingency
specialized
factors
and
favor
formalized.
When
bureaucratic
or
that
groups
similar
or
related
B.
increasingly
environments.
1.
Team structures
dynamic
and
complex
business
an
organizational
specialists
from
structure
different
that
functional
Another
of
these
designs
is
the
project
or
external
boundaries
imposed
by
predefined structure.
4.
5.
C.
increasingly
environments.
dynamic
and
complex
business
1.
2.
3.
cultural
of
uniqueness
differences
in
is
maintained
behavior
within
of
different
cultures
in
todays