Motivational Behavior and Culture in Organizations

Motivational Behavior & Roles; Teamwork and Culture in Organizations

Motivational Behavior & Roles; Teamwork and Culture in Organizations

Organizational Structure

Organizational structure determines the division of work between workers and informal channels of coordination and chain of command. Organizational structure governs relations within the institution and identifies responsibilities. Organizational structures and design patterns are actually the organization of a company to meet the proposed goals and achieve the desired objective. To select an appropriate structure it is necessary to understand that every company is different, and may adopt the organizational structure that best suits their needs and priorities this means that the structure must engage and respond to planning and it also must reflect the situation of the organization. The main purpose of the paper is to discuss structure of an organization and impact of various factors on determination of the structure of the organization.

Organizational structure refers to the formal and informal manner in which people, job tasks, and other organizational resources configure and coordinate. Although, organizational structure sounds like a singular characteristic, it composes of a number of dimensions, because there are multiple ways the employees within an organization and the job tasks that are carried out can be structured. The most commonly studied aspects of the organizational structure include formalization, centralization, and complexity.

For instance taking an example of Wal-Mart Stores, it has a divisional structure such as Wal-Mart Realty, Wal-Mart International, Wal-Mart Specialty Stores, Sam's. This structure develops through separate, semi-autonomous units or divisions. Furthermore, an organization may have various divisions and every division develops its own objectives. It is the responsibility of the manager to look after his division and for the performance of that division. Therefore, managers try to focus on productivity as they know that they are responsible.

Dimitri has an organizational structure which is Mechanistic. This structure can be explained as tall, narrow, with narrow span of control, highly centralized, and highly formalized. Furthermore, mechanistic structure is appropriate for an organization which has an extremely stable environment with routine technology. Action has an organizational structure which is Organic. This structure can be explained as flat, with wide span of control, some authority levels, low level of specialization, low level of formalization and decentralization. Organic structure works best for those organizations which have unstable environments and less routine technology.

Organizational Design

Wal-Mart has a divisional structure, and it has a geographic organizational design. Geographic design best suits the organizational structure of Wal-Mart because of it operations in different parts of the world. Organization design is the reshaping of organization structure and roles in an attempt to effectively align structure, processes, rewards, employee skills (including mind sets) and customer needs with business strategy. The complexity of integrating these various demands has resulted in a decentralized organization designs, which allow

More people to be involved in the decision making processes, and

The decisions to be made directly where the work is occurring.

Without this increase in participation and autonomy, the variety, change and speed, necessary for competitive advantage is not achieved...