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This 4 page paper considers the quote All managers have strategy-executing responsibility in their areas of authority, and all employees are participants in the strategy execution process" and looks at a different range of organizational structures to assess which is likely to be the most supportive of this approach. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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in the strategy execution process" it may be argued that this will be supported by different types of organizational structure, and restricted by others. Looking at different structure the alignment
to this argument may be assessed. There are different theories regarding the way a company should be structured. The bureaucratic model has a traditional structure, where there is a
strict hierarchal power structure and power is delegated from the top of the hierarchy downwards with different levels of authority and an important role for policies and rules. In complex
organizations the power may need to be spread over the organization, however, even where this occurs there is still the hierarchal structure and decisions are directed by company policy.
Weber argued that this was a structure that sought to find an efficient way of managing large workforces. His perspective was that
the bureaucratic subdued human issues and made use of reason and logic for decision to be made with reference to calculable rules. This, he argued was a rational approach that
emerged as a result of social engineering that took place and may be see as having equivalents with the use of machines in the industrial revolution as a logical progress
model, Weber has argued that "The decisive reason for the advance of bureaucratic organization has always been its purely technical superiority over any former organization. The fully developed bureaucratic
mechanism compares with other organizations exactly as does the machine with non-mechanical modes of production" (Weber, 1945). However, there are some problems with this, although it may be argued
to be an efficient structure in terms of deploying strategy and ensuring that it is followed by the different levels, the bureaucratic nature and control from the top is not
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