Intro to Business › Section G · Organizational structure › Topic G.5
Organizational design considerations
There is no single best structure. Whether an organisation should be tightly controlled or loose and flexible depends on its strategy, its size, its technology and how stable its environment is. This topic explains the mechanistic and organic models and the factors that favour each.
In this topic
- No one best way
- Burns and Stalker's two models
- The mechanistic organisation
- The organic organisation
- Tall and flat compared
- Worked example: profiling a firm
- Strategy and structure
- Size, environment and technology
- Worked example: advising two founders
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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