Organisations have been around since the start of civilisation. Organisation structure is what that keeps the organisation alive, even animals and insects such as wolves and ants have a form a structured orgaisation.
Fayol, a man credited as the inventor of management states that there are 6 managerial activities in an organisations.
1.Forecasting- predicting what might happen in the future
3.Organizing- allocating tasks to separate departments, units, individuals
4.Commanding- providing direction
5.Coordinating- making sure tasks are being carried out and people are working together
6.Controlling- monitoring progress
A structured organisation is essential to achieve objectives, while objectives could differ greatly from one organisation to another based on the nature of business. Organisations have developed ways of organising, delegating and recognising strength in their employees so that everyone's effort is channel productivty, directed towards achieving the right objectives.
As consumers, organisations both big and small have impacted our lives one way or another. Buying a frying pan from 'John Lewis', manufactured by 'Tefal', we have now experienced service from 'John Lewis' and product quality from 'Tefal'.
Industrial revolution, brought about by factors from past and present, including changes in technology, global competition, taxes, regulation, countries that are shifting from a commuist state of law to a more liberal democratic society, along with open participation in international trade.
In every business you will find that there are some features common to every organisation. Features such as different roles include, interpersonal, decisional, and informational.
An Informational would often be the likes of an informational disseminator, a spokesperson and monitor. An Interpersonal job role is someone like a figurehead, liason officer and leader, someone who is firm and impartial. The Decisional roles are like entrepreneurs, disturbance handlers, resource allocators and negotiators.
In an oraganisation, social arrangements is another aspect in which activities such as job coordination, allocation and supervision are directed to achieve the organisations' objectives.It is usually how people view the organisation from the outside. For example, the team leader delegates tasks to his subordinates and makes the subgroups/division of labour, they will produce better results as they are completeing task(s) based on their skill and work experience.
An organisations' structure will directly impact the performance of the organization.
The basic features of an organization structure are spans of control and levels of decentralization.
A change in structure would mean a change in both and in turn affecting the overall organisations' performance.
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This is a very good entry - full of knowledge and critical comment and application to businesses you know. A tip - at the end you mention "performance" - when discussing this concept it is always a good idea to quantify this in terms of data
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