Week 2: lecture slides about structures

Question 1

What is organizational structure?

Answer 1

The way tasks are formally divided, grouped and coordinated

Question 2

What are the design components of organizations? (6)

Answer 2

1. Work specialization
2. Departmentalization
3. Chain of command
4. Span of control
5. Centralization & decentralization
6. Formalization

Question 3

What is meant with work specialization?

Answer 3

The way tasks are divided into separate jobs completed by different individuals

Question 4

What is different between high and low formalization of jobs? (2)

Answer 4

1. autonomy (Low vs High)
2. Job descriptions or behaviors

Question 5

What are the 6 common structures of organizations?

Answer 5

1. Simple
2. Functional
3. Divisional
4. Matrix
5. Team/project
6. Network

Question 6

What are the characteristics of a simple structure? (3)

Answer 6

1 CEO
Employees directly beneath
Example startup

Question 7

What is a functional structure?

Answer 7

Structure based on functional area of expertise (e.g., marketing, sales, HR and so forth)

Advantage = more expertise and specialization
disadvantage = risk of lack of comms

Question 8

What is a divisional structure?

Answer 8

Several specialties work together on different products. Each specialty is represented in each product line

Question 9

What is a matrix structure?

Answer 9

Functional and divisional combined

Question 10

What is a team structure?

Answer 10

Teams work on several projects at once and are grouped together based on their specialty

Question 11

What is a network organization?

Answer 11

Is about pooling different resources together.
Organization is about finding different suppliers in different regions and countries
Specifically useful for global internet companies

Question 12

State the recommend org structure:

Small company
Stable and simple environment
One single product

Answer 12

Simple structure

Question 13

State the recommend org structure:

Medium company
Stable and certain environment
Efficiency and quality control (routine)

Answer 13

functional structure

Question 14

State the recommend org structure:

Large company
Somewhat stable and complex environment
Innovation and product specialization

Answer 14

Divisional structure

Question 15

State recommended org structure:

Large company
Instable and complex environment
Unique customer demands + high technical specialization

Answer 15

matrix structure

Question 16

state recommended org structure:
Medium-large company
Adaptive, customer driven environment
Self-directedness, scrum/agile

Answer 16

team structureS

Question 17

state recommend org structure:

Very large/global company
Unstable high complex environment
Best of the best, outsourcing

Answer 17

network structure

Question 18

What are the 3 antecedent of structure?

Answer 18

environment
strategy
size