IE20403Business Management

WEEK 5

Mohd Yuszren YusakMenara 8A

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Designing Adaptive Organizations

• Organizational structure- vertical, horizontal configuration of departments, authority, and jobs within a company

Organizational process

• The collection of activities that transform inputs into outputs that customers value

• Eg microsoft use basic internal and external process to write computer software

Designing organizational structures

• Departmentalization-subdividing work and workers into separate organizational units responsible for completing particular task

• Functional departmentalization- organizing work & workers into separate units responsible for particular business functions or areas of expertise

methods

Methods used for creating department1. Functional2. Product3. Customer4. Geographic5. Matrix

1. Functional departmentalization

• When small or starting up use this structure• Work and workers were separated into several

units• Difficult in terms of cross department

coordination

2.Product

• Eg microsoft• Feedback from product will organize how the

company will function• Work & departments organize according to

product

geographic

• Separate units for different countries & areas

Hybrid/matrix

• More innovative • Big huge cooperation• Moving forward • Being global/going global