97. Pyramid Organization: The Common Structure
Concept
Let’s begin our discussion of organizational architecture with issues of organizational structure. We can distinguish between structure and design in that, the latter would include the myriad systems that add muscle to the structural skeleton. Jay Galbraith was one of the most prolific scholars on organizational design. If you would like to pursue this issue further, check out his long list of books.1
The simplest organizational structure is a pyramid with a large number of employees at the bottom and a single chief executive at the top. Each layer has fewer and fewer managers and managers of managers until the top layer has only one.
One of the primary issues in pyramid organizations is ...
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