The Structural Frame

Organizational Structure

100

Structural Frame bases on the assumption that people attempt to make a consistent, value-maximizing choice with in specified constraints. What is this assumption?

Rationality

200

Two issues that are central to structural design are ______ and _____.

Differentiation (Division of labor, Specialization) and Integration (Coordination, Harmonizing)

300

Higher levels coordinate and control the work of subordinates through authority, rules and policies, and planning and control systems.

Vertical Coordination

400

Integration by less formal and more flexible means including meetings, task forces, coordinating roles, matrix structures, and networks

Later coordination

500

Later coordination is better than vertical coordination. Yes? No? Why?

Vertical coordination is better when environment is stable, tasks are predictable. Lateral coordination is better when a complex task is performed in a fast-changing environment. Should use both according to the organization's circumstances.

Restructuring

100

Restructure is necessary because, A) environmental and technological changes B) initiatives from the new leadership C) decentralized structure D) machine bureaucracy E) growth in organization

A, B, E

200

In Mintzberg's fives, this group refers to workers who produce or provide products or services to customers or clients.

Operating Core

300

In Mintzberg's fives, administrative component, which includes managers who supervise, coordinate, control, and provide resources for the operators is called

strategic apex

400

Organizational structure that has relatively large operating core, small technostructure, few levels between the strategic apex and operating core is called

Professional bureaucracy

500

Structure that sub organizations do the major work, under one strategic apex, technostructure, and support staff.

Divisionalized form

More on Structural Frame

100

Structure where two or multiple groups (e.g., academic and administration) work together, but separately, specialized

Loosely coupled

200

An ideal form that maximized norms of rationality. It has major features including a fixed division of labor, a hierarchy of offices, a set or rules governing performance, a separation of personal from official property and rights, the use of technical qualification for selecting personnel, employment as primary occupation and long-term career

(monocratic) bureaucracy

300

The idea that no single organizational structure is applicable to all organizations, and organizations needs to respond to a universal set of internal and external parameters.

Structural imperatives / Contingencies; Include size, age, core process, environment, strategy and goals, information and technology, and workforce characteristics.