Organisational Design

Maddern, J., Courtney, M., Montgomery, J., & Nash, R. (2006). Traditional and emerging organisational designs (2nd ed.). Marrickville, Australia: Elsevier Australia.

Businesses require structure to be a successful money-making venture. Designing an organization structure helps the leadership identify what caliper and type of employees that needs to be hired into the organization. With this in mind it is also important that employee responsibilities are clearly defined. Each member needs to have a job description and each job is a needed and has its own slot on the company’s organizational chart.

Structure According to Drucker (1989), ‘is the correct design of structure which is of most significance in determining organizational performance’

Andrews, K., 2010. The Concept of Corporate Strategy, 3rd Edition. Financial Times Prentice Hall. [Accessed 13 April 2014]

Having the appropriate structure is vital for an organisation or business to meet its aims and objectives. A business may be structured by:

In Phase II we ensured external competitiveness by analyzing the external market survey data on total

We move on to the q 1 - regarding the six key elements of organizational design to analysis what decision Buckman Labs has made. What are the Six Key Elements of Organization Design? The six elements are Work specialization, Departmentalization, Chain of command, Span of control, Centralization / Decentralization and Formalization .

Organisation Design – This area of the map concentrates on shaping the organisation structure to the business

The design of an organization is a “formal, guided process for integrating the people, information, and technology of an organization” (Glickman et al., 2007). A good organizational design increases the likelihood that an organization will succeed; that its’ values will be realized and its mission will be attained. An organization begins with a strategy or a purpose, is followed by its philosophy or values, then identifies the mission and finally evaluates the environment and its’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to the organization (Kelly & Crawford, 2008).

Organizational design is defined as a functional, divisional, and matrix structure in an organization. For Boeing, a Metrix structure is used for stronger horizontal alignment for the organization, starting with the CEO, the matrix structure of Boeing flows downward to nine department heads who are senior vice presidents, these departments are listed as follow:

Organisation Design Ensures that the organisation is appropriately designed to deliver organisation objectives in the short term and long term and that structural change is effectively managed.

Daft, Richard L. Organizational Theory and Design: 12th edition. South-Western College Publisher. 24 April 2015

Organisational design is “the outcome of shaping and aligning all the components towards the achievement of an agreed mission’ (Stanford, 2007) while it can be viewed in the structural and contextual dimensions (Daft, Murphy and Willmott, 2010). The followings will discuss how Ben& Jerry’s organisation design had been changing in the structural dimension and two elements in the contextual dimensions, the strategy and environment, in order to react to external environments and internal managing problems between 1990 and 1995. Also, analysing whether Ben & Jerry performed effectively under the changed organisational design.

After watching the TV series ‘Suits’, we felt that we could relate to the organizational designs. Also, practically, we are currently studying the main topics such as culture, ethics, motivation, impact of organization hierarchy, leadership.

You provided an excellent response to this week DQ. I agree that businesses large and small need to find balance in their organizational structuring that align with overall mission and goal in such a way to maximize profit and survivability. The organization structuring should be flexible and agile enough to respond quickly to changes in the competitive business environment, especially now in the global market place. The textbook, Management Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World, provide us a good starting point into understand organization strategy. It is interesting to note that today large organizations are moving to a structure model where they need to partition themselves in smaller unit so they can respond quickly to customer