Organisational Design: Structuring and Restructuring Organisations

Limited Contents:

An Introduction to Organisational Design

• Approaches to Organisational Design
• Classical Organisational Design
• Neo-Classical Organisational Design
• Classical Approach to Organisational Design
• Scientific Management to Organisational Design
• Humanistic Approach to Organisational Design
• Mechanistic Approach to Organisational Design
• Human Relations Movement
• Contingency Approaches to Organisational Design.
• Organisational Structure and Internal and External Relationships
• Levels of Control and Role Specificity
• Mechanistic and Organismic Structures and Their Types of Relationships
• A Case in Point: The Mechanistic Factory Setting
• Vertical Relationships in Organisational Design
• Horizontal Relationships in Organisational Design
• Lines of Authority and Accountability in Organisational Design
• Types of Organisational Structure
• The Simple Structure
• The Functional Structure
• The Divisional Structure and its Internal Relationships
• Bases of Divisionalisation
• Product Divisional Structure
• Service Divisional Structure