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Organizational Design
• The process by which managers select and manage various dimensions and components of organizational structure and culture so that an organization can achieve its goals.
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Organizational Structure
• The formal system of task and reporting relationships that controls, coordinates, and motivates employees so that they cooperate and work together to achieve an organization’s goals.
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Organizational Culture
• The informal set of values and norms that controls the way people and groups in an organization interact with each other and with people outside the organization.
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FIGURE 15.1 The Nature of Organizational Design
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Differentiation
• The grouping of people and tasks into functions and divisions to produce goods and services.
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Function
• A set of people who perform the same types of tasks or hold similar positions in an organization.
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Division
• A group of functions created to allow an organization to produce and dispose of its goods and services to customers.
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FIGURE 15.2 PepsiCo's Organizational Chart
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Functional Structure
• An organizational structure that groups together people who hold similar positions, perform a similar set of tasks, or use the same kinds of skills.
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FIGURE 15.3 Dell's Functional Structure
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Advantages of a Functional Structure
• Coordination Advantages
• Motivational Advantages
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Disadvantages of a Functional Structure
• When a range of products or services that a company produces increases, the various functions can have difficulty efficiently servicing the needs of a wide range of products.
• Coordination problems may arise.• As companies grow, they often expand their
operations nationally, and servicing needs becomes difficult.
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Divisional Structures
• Product Structure - groups functions by types of products so that each division contains the functions it needs to service the products it produces.
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FIGURE 15.4 Three Types of Divisional Structure
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Divisional Structures
• Market Structure - groups functions by types of customers so that each division contains the functions it needs to service a specific segment of the market.
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Figure 15.4 (Continued)
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Divisional Structure
• Geographic Structure - groups functions by region so that each division contains the functions it needs to service customers in a specific geographic area.
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Figure 15.4 (Continued)
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Advantages of Divisional Structures
• Coordination Advantages
• Motivation Advantages
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Disadvantages of Divisional Structures
• Operating costs
• Communication may suffer
• Divisions may start to compete for organizational resources
• Divisions may pursue own goals at the expense of organizational goals
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Matrix Structure
• An organizational structure that simultaneously groups people by function and by product team.
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FIGURE 15.5 A Matrix Structure
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Advice to Managers
• Examine the way your organization groups its activities by function, and determine whether this grouping meets the organization’s current product or customer needs.
• If the number of goods and services you are producing has increased, examine whether you should change to a product structure.
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Advice to Managers
• If you are currently servicing the needs of a number of different groups of customers, examine whether you should change to a market structure.
• If you are expanding nationally, examine whether you should change to a geographic structure.
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Advice to Managers
• If your current need is to speed the development of new products, examine whether you should choose a matrix structure.
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Organizational Structure -Key Terms
• Integration - coordinating the activities of different functions and divisions.
• Authority - the power that enables one person to hold another person accountable for his or her actions.
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Organizational Structure -Key Terms
• Span of Control - the number of employees who report to a manager.
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FIGURE 15.6 Using the Hierarchy to Manage Intergroup Relations
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Figure 15.6 (Continued)
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Organizational Structure -Key Terms
• Decentralization - the distribution of authority and responsibility for decision making to managers at all levels of an organization’s hierarchy.
• Centralization - the concentration of authority and responsibility for decision making in the hands of managers at the top of an organization’s hierarchy.
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FIGURE 15.7 Examples of Flat and Tall Hierarchies
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Organizational Structure -Key Terms
• Mutual Adjustment - the ongoing informal communication among different people and functions that is necessary for an organization to achieve its goals.
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Organizational Structure -Key Terms
• Teams - a permanent group made up of representatives from two or more functions that meets regularly to discuss important on-going problems facing the organizations.
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FIGURE 15.8 Using a Team to Increase Coordination Between Functions
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Organizational Structure -Key Terms
• Cross-Functional Teams - are composed of people from different functions who are permanently assigned to work full-time on a team to bring a new good or service to the market.
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FIGURE 15.9 A Cross-Functional Team Structure
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Organizational Structure -Key Terms
• Integrating Role - a permanent managerial position in which the manager’s only role is to coordinate the activities of different divisions.
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FIGURE 15.10 Using Integrating Roles in a Product Structure to Increase Integration
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Organizational Structure -Key Terms
• Standardization - the development of routine responses to recurring problems or opportunities.
• Formalization - the use of rules and standard operating procedures to control an organization’s activities.
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Organizational Culture -Key Terms
• Terminal Value - a desired goal that an organization seeks to achieve.
• Instrumental Value - a desired mode of behavior that an organization wants its members to observe.
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Organizational Culture -Key Term
• Ethical Values - the moral values and norms that establish the appropriate way for an organization and its members to deal with each other and with those outside the organization.
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Organizational Rites
• Rites of Passage
• Rites of Integration
• Rites of Enhancement
• Rites of Degradation
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Rites of Passage
• Purpose is to learn and internalize the norms and values of the organization. An example is induction and basic training.
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Rites of Integration
• Purpose is to build common norms and values. An example is an annual office party.
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Rites of Enhancement
• Purpose is to motivate commitment to norms and values. An example is the presentation of an annual award.
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Rites of Degradation
• Purpose is to change or reaffirm norms and values. An example is firing a top executive.
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Advice to Managers
• Always study the culture of your organization, and identify the terminal and instrumental values on which it is based in order to assess how it affects organizational behavior.
• Assess whether organizational norms are effectively transmitting the values of your organization’s culture to organizational members.
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Advice to Managers
• Examine how your organization socializes new members. Assess whether socialization practices are effective in helping newcomers to learn the organization’s culture, and look for ways to improve the process.