Organisation Structure (A Level)

Major changes have occurred in most businesses setting up their internal management structures including more and more companies adopting a 'flatter' and more decentralized structure where decisions are taken elsewhere than at the head office. The question is why did this change happen?

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• Multinational organizations find that taking decisions centrally means they are not taking local or regional factors into account
• Communication systems are becoming more mobile and instantaneous, allowing workers to work in teams much more effectively
• Employees are becoming better qualified and more knowledgeable – they do not want to work in formal hierarchies

The use of matrix project teams has been championed by one of the most famous authors on organizational structure. In his book entitled In Search of Excellence (1982), he suggested that the use of teams should lead to more innovative and creative ideas because staff will be more motivated to contribute, what is the name of the famous author?

• Aquila Adam
• Charles Dean
• Tom Peters
• Hiram Maxim

The organizational structure that creates project teams that cross traditional functional departments is referred to as?

• Flat Structure
• Circular Structure
• Organizational structure
• Matrix structure

Tall (or narrow) organizational structures have a large number of hierarchical levels and this creates some major problems. Mention the main problems of organizational structure organization

• Communication through the organization can be slow with messages distorted or filtered in some way
• Spans of control are likely to be narrow – see below.
• There is likely to be a greater sense of remoteness, among those at lower levels, from the decision-making powers at the top
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The authority to perform tasks and make decisions from higher to lower levels in the organization is referred to as?

• Centralization
• Delegation
• Decentralization
• Span of control

What are the disadvantages of the matrix structure?

• The structure is very simple
• Resources are used efficiently
• The emergence of leadership dualism
• Good and smooth communication Answer

Mention 2 characteristics of personal relationships that are commonly used in business organizations

• Formal structure and informal structure
• Education structure and health structure
• Integrative structure and disintegrative structure
• Political structure and Oriented structure

The manager, who has direct authority over people, decisions, and resources in the organizational hierarchy is called?

• General Manager
• Top Manager
• Middle Manager
• Line managers

what is a formal organization?

• Interpersonal collections without a conscious common goal, even though in the end the conscious relationships are for a common purpose
• Personal networks and social relationships that develop among people in an organization
• An organization in which there are two or more people who can play a role in improving themselves with a common goal
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Decision-making power is passed down to the organization to empower subordinates and regional/product managers, referred to as?

• Decentralization
• Centralization
• Delegation
• Span of control