ORGANIZATIONS AND BEHAVIOR

Organizations and Behaviour

Organizations and Behaviour

1.1 Differences and Similarities

Tall Power culture

Flat Role culture

In tall organizational structure, there are different layers, which operate between CEO and low level of staff.

In flat organizational structure, the level of pressure is less, and thus high level of motivation to grow.

In tall organizational structure the level of complexity is low.

The notion of flexibility is low in tall organization.

In flat organizational structure, there is only one top manager who is also known as CEO.

In flat structure, employees feel they are more influenced by highest authority.

In flat organizational structure the level of complexity is high.

The intensity of flexibility in flat organization is high.

Tall Power Culture

Tall power structure of the organizations consists of multiple layers of reporting, these layers, as a matter of fact, are present between the CEO and the lower staff, for instance, the Macquarie Group employs tall organizational structure. With this structure in place, the level of motivation, in contrast to flat structure, is high. The reason behind such an enhanced level of motivation is that they feel more anxious to reach at the top most layers through subsequent growth (Keltner et. al., 2012).

The organizational complexity in tall structure is high in tall organization due to enhancement of layers. Finally the flexibility in tall organizations is also low because higher numbers of layers follows a bureaucratic style where reporting is necessary for any further improvement, similar is the case with Macquarie Group.

Flat Power Culture

From the organization structure point of view, the flat culture means that the organizational layers are low, and there will only be a single authority who will be overseeing the overall operations of the organization. For instance in cooperative banks, the flat structure means the CEO is watching the handful of other employees. Since, the purpose of any cooperative bank is ...