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Today’s view is that it is an important organizing mechanism but not a source of ever-
control in organizations. The contemporary view is that they are less relevant in today’s
organizations. The traditional view of span of control was that managers should directly
supervise no more than 5-6 individuals. The contemporary view is that the span of
control depends on the skills and abilities of the manager and the employees and on the
functions performed; product – groups jobs by product lines; geographical – groups jobs
customer – groups jobs on specific and unique customer groups. (See Exhibit 10-2.)
functional specialties.
Authority is the rights inherent in a managerial position to tell people what to do and
manager.
things as the environment, experience of managers, nature of the decision, size of the
An organization’s structure should support the strategy. If the strategy changes, the
organization reaches a certain size (around 2,000 employees), it’s fairly mechanistic.
organic structure is most effective with unit production and process production
The more uncertain an organization’s environment, the more it needs the flexibility of
an organic design.
Common Organizational Designs
In a team structure, the entire organization is made up of work teams. The matrix
structure assigns specialists from different functional departments to work on one or more
projects being led by project managers. A project structure is one in which employees
organization that uses its own employees to do some work activities and networks of