CHAPTER 6
Organizing and Organizational Design
The art of organization is not to create organizations but to multiply our effectiveness.
Rob Reiner, Improving the Economy, Efficiency, andEffectiveness of Not-for-Profits
KEY WORDS
Organization
Organizing
Organizational structure
Mechanistic versus organic organizations
Organizational chart
Division of work
Informal organizational structure
Agency form of management
Functional department management
Departmentalization
Organization by division
Organization by matrix
Vertical coordination
Chain of command, or the scalar principle
Span of control
Delegation
Centralization versus decentralization
Horizontal coordination
Open system model of organizational design
Bureaucracy
In this chapter we take ...
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