The Structural Frame

The Structural Frame Twenty-first-century societies could be characterized as the modern humanity with Cutting-edge technology and multiculturalism, with extreme materialism and economical drive. As a result, any modern organization, regardless of its size, type or nature, has to depend upon the factual structures and best management paths to survive in today’s civilization. Lee G.Bolman and Terrence F. Deal’s (2013) book “Reframing Organizations” presents most updated and developed managerial approaches to leadership and structure for the organizations.

L.G. Bolman and T.F. Deal’s (2013) bestseller provided a four-frame model of an organization, which incorporates the structural, human resources, political and the symbolic forms.

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In the book “Reframing organizations” L.G. Bolman and T.F. Deal (2013) presented “Mintzberg’s fives” as the essential foundation of a structural frame. And the very first design on the list is a simple structure, customarily used in creating of new or startup companies. Thus, divided only into the strategic apex as an owner and operating level as the employees, it falls into a flat system category. The best examples of simple leadership probably would be the small bodega stores located almost on every other street corner in New York City. Although, some of the big scale companies could become the simple structure in times of bankruptcy. Being in depth in the early 1990s International Business Machines Corp (IBM) Company became a simple structure for more than a year. When newly hired CEO set the company into survival mode by cutting back $9 billion in expenses and incorporated as it was referred the “benevolent dictatorship”- extremely centralized, autocratic organizational style. Ergo, the strength of the structure, the simplicity and clear accountability rescued the