Strategies And Factors In Mintzberg's Organizational Design

An organisation can be structured in many ways which depends on an organization’s strategy and objectives. Therefore the organizational structure defines how tasks are controlled within a business. This is to allow correct allocation of tasks to different functional teams. These teams are developed and allocated specifically on the performed tasks in order to meet the organization’s objectives and required goals. Delic, A., Alibegovic, S. D. and Mesanovi, M. (2016) found that a narrower Organisational structure with very fewer hierarchical levels is appropriate for the development of intrapreneurship within an organisation. (Damanpour, 1991; Fadeyi et al., 2015) added that an organisational structure includes the nature of formalization, the

This is to allow managers to make decisions about how to group employees together to meet their objectives. There six most common structures in Mintzberg’s Organization Design include; simple, functional, divisional, matrix, teams and network and an organisation will select a structure based on the originations needs. Simple structure is a basic organisational design structure with low departmentalisation, little work specialisation, a wide span of control, centralised authority and little formalisation or rules. This would normally define a small company with a simplified organisational structures with very few employees who would be responsible for numerous tasks within the organisation. The next structure is the functional structure, this structure focuses on practical specialisation where similar or related occupational specialise are grouped together. Functional teams/areas are a group of employee with similar skills and knowledge. Common functional areas/teams include departments such as Finance, Sales HR and IT. There are a number of reason why companies are organised in functional teams and one of the many reasons is because it is more efficient to have employees with similar skills group together where it is easy for them to team up for project. The second reason is that working in functional teams makes training and knowledge sharing easier, since employees working in similar functional teams work together making it very easy to share their knowledge with others. The third structure is a matrix structure, this is company structure in which the reporting relationships are set up as grid, or matrix, rather than in the traditional hierarchy meaning that employees have dual working relationships. The next structure is called a divisional structure also known as a multidivisional structure. This the manner of designing an organisation