Question

Phase II: Organizing
(Chapter 12: Designing)

Overview: An organization’s mission and objectives are established by planning, however, managers must design an organization that is capable of achieving the desired results. To effectively pursue the HSOs/HSs mission and objectives, managers but develop intentional patterns and relationships between people and other resources. The resulting structure is called the organizational design, and the efforts and activities are the organizing function of management. Designing, or organization design is defined according to Longest and Darr (2014) as “the arrangement of responsibilities, authority, and flow of information within an organization (p.583).” How well managers carry out the designing function is critical to how well their organizations perform.

For this phase of the project complete the following:

1. Identify and describe the HSO’s/HS’s organization design. Refer Mintzberg’s Five Basic Organization Designs:
   1. Simple Structure
   2. Machine Bureaucracy
   3. Professional Bureaucracy
   4. Divisionalized Form
   5. Adhocracy

Be sure to identify the design accordingly to the five interrelated parts provided Mintzberg: strategic apex, operating core, middle line, technostructure, support staff.

**Remember the organization design is ubiquitous and continuous**

Answer 1

Introduction- Henry Mintzberg is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University also holds a degree in Doctrate from Massachusetts Institute of technology, he has also been a professor in McGill .He has also introduced a book one among which is The structuring in organisation, A synthesis of the research and The structure in 5's and in all his books he includes and introduces five types of organsiation structure and the way they influence the functioning of the organisation

The following are the five basic design

a- Simple Structure- This is also known as entrepreneural organisation,as it refers yo a vertically organised pyramid with vertical lines of authority, its characteristic includes direct supervision of subordinates, organic organisation and a lack of formal support structure. Authority rests in the person i.e CEO. Mostly Small and young organisation are included in this category.

b- Machine Bureaucracy- High level of work standardization get the name of Machine Bureaucracy, by allowing the parts of the organisation to work just like the different parts of the machinery.The organisation dealing in large scale of production uses this form. Detailed and standardized tasks included in the process of operation that allow employee to complete their task to minimum or no training requirement.It has formal lines of authority.

c- Professional Bureaucracy - Professional Bureaucracy is bureaucratic without being centralized.In this the organisations depends on the highly qualified professionals in order to do the work with high degree of Independence. The coordination function of the organization is achieved by standardising the skills and qualification required in order to carry out the task in a particular desired manner.

d- Divisionalized form- The organizations which are large in size and deals in diversified product creates small division to carry in individual work specifically.The importance of this divisionalized form is to make their division act with full autonomy in order to address their particular situation, while the main part of the orgaization deals with the main issues.

e- Adhocracy- Formal organisational structure really need time to adopt to the frequently occuring changes, In large organization where the changes occurs frequently and which alos deals in different projects results in limiting the required flexibility.The Adhocracy adapts to whatever the situation might occurs and it forms team which are self organising with matrix structure in order to carry out the work to be done.