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A 3 page discussion of organizational structure. The author explores vertical, horizontal, and matrix organization and comments on the importance of carefully managing human resources. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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example, contend that in the absence of workable structure "people become unsure about what they are supposed to be doing. The result is confusion, frustration, and conflict" (p. 322).
As an organization grows bigger, of course, its organizational structure enlarges as well (Robbins, 2004). The challenge in any organization is finding the appropriate degree and types of
vertical and horizontal differentiation and integration. Organizations are structured in a variety of ways according to the intent of the organization. The
most typically expectation in organizational structure is vertical. Staff is organized in a vertical hierarchy with management at the top of the hierarchy and workers at the bottom.
Horizontal structure, in contrast, is put in place on the basis of goals rather than on supervisory rank. In a horizontally structured organization a supervisor might actually be working
right alongside one that he supervises. Typically, however, most organizations have some degree of both vertical and horizontal organization. Consider, for example, a multi-department organization. While each
department also has a hierarchal organization in terms of supervisors and staff, that organization is more easily viewed as lateral since each department is also part of the vertical hierarchy
that is in play in the organization over all. In effect this is a matrix. Matrix organizations combine the best features of vertical organization with the best features
of horizontal organization. In theory, organizational structure could be said to be directly related to organization efficiency and productivity. There are
notable differences, however, between the organic, mechanistic, and organizational structures. While the organic structure is a free-form structure which evolves in accordance with need, the organizational structure is often
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