4 STRUCTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF ORGANISATIONS
After studying this chapter you should, in the context of organisations with which you are familiar:
- be able to recognise how they are structured;
- be able to suggest alternative possible structures and identify their advantages and disadvantages;
- understand the concept of role or job design;
- be aware of the effect that decisions about organisational structure may have on individual employees.
4.1 ORGANISATIONAL MODELS
As we said at the start of Chapter 3, an organisation is a group of people working together in a formal way to meet shared goals. What this means is that the work that has to be done is shared between these people and that there are rules about who does what. How the work is shared ...
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