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Welcome to Darren Smith's HCC homepage for MAN1021 Management. My goal is to provide you with access to critical resources to assist you in your coursework.  Use of this website is required for your course, please familiarise yourself with it and check back frequently.

5 - Basic Organisational Designs

Presentation Guidelines

Follow these steps for success:

  • Define words
  • Explain basic concepts
  • Give examples!
  • Allow for additional examples from instructor/other students, provide opportunity for concept synthesis and further exploration of the topic.
  • Topics to be covered in your presentation:

    I. INTRODUCTION
    A. The Steve Siegel Example

    II. THE ELEMENTS OF STRUCTURE
    A. The Basic Concepts of Organization Design
    B. What Is Work Specialization?
    C. What Is the Chain of Command?
    D. What Is the Span of Control?
    E. What Are Authority and Responsibility?
    F. Are There Different Types of Authority Relationships?
    G. How Does the Contemporary View of Authority and Responsibility Differ from the Historical View?
    H. How Do Authority and Power Differ?
    I. How Do Centralization and Decentralization Differ?
    J. Can You Identify the Five Ways to Departmentalize?
    K. How Are Activities Grouped?
    L. How Does the Contemporary View of Departmentalization Differ from the Historical View?

    III. CONTINGENCY VARIABLES AFFECTING STRUCTURE
    A. Introduction
    B. How Is a Mechanistic Organization Different from an Organic Organization?
    C. How Does Strategy Affect Structure?
    D. How Does Size Affect Structure?
    E. How Does Technology Affect Structure?
    F. How Does Environment Affect Structure?

    IV. ORGANIZATION DESIGN APPLICATIONS
    A. What Is a Simple Structure?
    B. What Do We Mean by a Bureaucracy?
    C. Why Do Companies Implement Functional Structures?
    D. What Is the Divisional Structure?
    E. Can an Organization Design Capture the Advantages of Bureaucracies While Eliminating Their Disadvantages?
    F. What Are Team-Based Structures?
    G. Why Is There Movement toward a Boundaryless Organization?

    V. ORGANIZATION CULTURE
    A. What Is an Organization Culture?
    B. How Can Cultures Be Assessed?
    C. Where Does an Organization's Culture Come from?
    D. How Does Culture Influence Structure?
     

    Other important points:

    • You've been given a number of resources to assist you in your project... see Better Learning Page, Oral Presentations section for tips.
    • Your grade is derived from the Oral Evaluation Guide so please familiarise yourself with it.  Your grade will suffer if you don't use it and pay attention to it.
    • If you're going to read your entire presentation from the textbook, forget it.  I can read the book myself and so can the class.
    • If you're not prepared, be ready for an "F".


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