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Organizational Structure Insights

The document discusses three approaches to structuring organizations: the one best way approach, contingency approach, and configuration approach. It describes the configuration approach as examining the various attributes of an organization, including its parts, coordinating mechanisms, design parameters, and situational factors. The configuration approach aims to understand how all these attributes work together.

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Organizational Structure Insights

The document discusses three approaches to structuring organizations: the one best way approach, contingency approach, and configuration approach. It describes the configuration approach as examining the various attributes of an organization, including its parts, coordinating mechanisms, design parameters, and situational factors. The configuration approach aims to understand how all these attributes work together.

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The Structuring Of Organizations

- By Henry Mintzberg

3 Different Approaches

One Best Way Approach

Contingency Approach

Configuration Approach

Various Attributes Of an Organization


A. Parts B. Coordinating Mechanisms C. Design parameters D. Situational Factors

Getting it all together approach or Configuration approach

6 Basic Parts

Internal coalition

External coalition

Various Attributes Of an Organization


A. Parts B. Coordinating Mechanisms C. Design parameters D. Situational Factors

6 Basic Coordinating Mechanisms

Bureaucratic

Various Attributes Of an Organization


A. Parts B. Coordinating Mechanisms C. Design parameters D. Situational Factors

Parameters
Job Specialization Behavior formalization Standardization Training Indoctrination Bureaucratization Unit grouping Unit size Action Planning Planning & control systems Performance Ctrl Liaison devices Decentralization

Various Attributes Of an Organization


A. Parts B. Coordinating Mechanisms C. Design parameters D. Situational Factors

The situational Factors


Age & Size Technical system Environment Power

To Lead

To Rationalize

To Collaborate

To professionalize

The Configuration Approach


CONFIGURATION COORDINATING MECHANISM KEY PART OF THE ORGANIZATION TYPE OF DECENTRALIZATI ON

Entrepreneurial
Machine Professional Diversified Innovative Missionary Political

Direct Supervision
Std of Work Process Std of Skills Std of O/P Mutual Adjustment Std of Norms None

Strategic Apex
Techno structure Operating Core Middle Line Support Staff Ideology None

V&H Centralization
Ltd H Decentralization H decentralization Ltd V decentralization Selected Decentralization Decentralization Varies

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Unit Grouping
Choice of the bases Function performed or market served By function
Executives

Finance

Operations

Marketing

Public Relations

By Market (place, product, client)


Ececutive

Return

MD (Bombay Circle)

MD (Chennai)

MD (Delhi)

Decentralization
Decision-making power Centralization- all the power rests at a single point Decentralization-dispersed among many individuals. Horizontal Vertical Selective Parallel

Return
6 FORMS 1. Vertical & Horizontal Centralization 2. Ltd Horizontal Decentralization 3. Ltd Vertical Decentralization 4. Vertical & Horizontal Decentralization 5. Selective Vertical & Horizontal Decentralization 6. Pure Decentralization

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