Foundations Of Senior Management

Organisations
Structure

Mechanistic (bureaucratic) structures

Max Weber

  • types of authority
     
    • Charismatic
       
    • Traditional
       
    • Rational-legal (bureaucracy)
       
  • Main elements
     
    • Rules & regulations
       
    • Specialisation of labour
       
    • Hierachical chain of command
       
    • Posts based on competencies
       
    • Impersonal
       
      • Separation of command and control
         
    • Written documentation
       
    • Contractual relationship of employees and organisation
       

Functional structures

Product / service structures

Geographic structures

Matrix Structures

There is the likelihood that heads of reporting lines may have to meet regularly to decide how to apportion each persons time.

Staff may feel uncomfortable with the degree of change and uncertainty implicit in a matrix structure.

Mintzberg's Organisational structures

  • The machine organisation


     
  • The professional organisation


     
  • The diversified organisation


     

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