Intro to Business › Section G · Organizational structure › Topic G.1
Building an organizational structure
Every organisation, from a family bakery to a global bank, has a structure: a way of dividing the work, grouping the jobs and connecting the people who do them. This topic covers the traditional building blocks: division of labour, five kinds of departmentalisation, and line and staff positions.
In this topic
- Structure as the result of organising
- Division of labour and specialisation
- Worked example: a sandwich line
- Departmentalisation and the organisation chart
- Function and product
- Process, customer and geography
- Worked example: choosing a basis
- Line organisation
- Line-and-staff organisation
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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