Organizational structure T3-W5-P1

Lesson title:
Organizational structure

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✓ Come to class well equipped: laptop charged,

pencil case, notebook.

✓ Participate in discussions.
✓ Be respectful to others.
✓ Keep class clean.

Learning objectives

● Discuss organizational structure.

● Analyse an organizational chart.

Homework: Revise checkpoint 2 (Units 1-2) on LMS

● Organizational structure

● Organizational chart

● Hierarchy

● Span of control

● Chain of command

Starter

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Poll

An organizational structure allows to arrange employees by role and level of responsibility.

• True

• False

Poll

A classic organizational structure is like how the military are organized, officers on the top and front line at the bottom.

• true

• false

Organizational structure

An organizational structure shows the different levels of management and
lines of communication in a business.

It is a way to arrange people and work in a business.

Organizational structure

A hierarchy shows how the levels of management in a business are organized.

Multiple Choice

All the followings are true about organizational structure except:

• It shows how people are arranged in an organization.

• It shows the levels of management.

• It shows how communication flows in an organization.

• It shows the objectives of an organization.

Small Business

Organizational structure

Large Business

Multiple Choice

The larger the business, the more complex its organization structure.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

The organization structure of a business does not depend on the number of employees.

• true

• false

Chain of command

Features of an organizational structure

Span of control

is the line along which
instructions and
communication flow in a
business.

to the number of employees
working for a manager.

Multiple Choice

A span of control is......

• the levels of management in an organization.

• the number of employees under the authority of a manager.

• the organizational chart

• how employees are arranged .

Multiple Choice

The chain of command outlines the lines of authority and instructions.

• true

• false

Analysis of an organizational structure

Multiple Choice

All the following statements are true about a flat organization except:

• is highly used in IT companies such as Apple.

• It has a wide span of control.

• it fosters innovation and creativity.

• managers rely on giving orders and no delegation.

1.
In your opinion, which leadership style is adopted in a tall

organization?

2.
Imagine and describe a business or an organization without

an organizational structure?

3.
Your family is an organization, does it have an organizational

structure?

Critical thinking:

Poll

_{Self assessment:}

Can you explain what is an organizational structure with its features?

• yes

• no

• yes, but I still need some help.

Poll

Exit ticket

Was the lesson today...….

• engaging

• boring