In: Operations Management
You wanted to be an entrepreneur after you graduate from university Along with your friends – one from marketing, another one from economics, you set up a new business. Your two friends from other majors are telling you – because you are a management major – to 2 design an organization with structural dimensions and contextual dimensions. You agreed to do it. Design your organization with the above dimensions.?
To design an organization with the given dimensions the following should be taken care of:
Structural dimensions: Centralization-the degree to which roles
are distributed within the organisation, either as regards overlap
with other departments or globally.
Formalization-addressing the scope of the organization's policies
and procedures.
Hierarchy-in terms of the degree and arrangement of the structural
stages.
Routinization-to the level in standardization in operational
procedures.
Specialization-due to the degree of which the tasks are being
optimized.
Training-regrading the scope of activities to equip members of the
organization with knowledge and skills to perform their roles.
Contextual Dimensions Culture — principles and ideals shared by all (note that culture is often discerned by the analysis of norms or identifiable actions in the workplace) Climate — essence of external factors and practices in the governmental, technological, social and economic environments Objectives — specific overarching objectives and expected organizational end-states Scale — amount of individuals