Organizational Structure
                Chapter 11
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  Learning Objectives
      1.   Identify five traditional organizational structures 
           and the pros and cons of each
      2.   Describe the product-team structure and explain 
           why it is a prototype for the more open, agile 
           organizational structure
      3.   Explain five ways improvements have been 
           sought in traditional organizational structures
      4.   Describe what is meant by agile, virtual 
           organizations
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  Learning Objectives (contd.)
         5.  Explain how outsourcing can create agile, virtual 
             organizations, along with its pros and cons
         6.  Describe boundaryless organizations and why 
             they are important
         7.  Explain why organizations of the future need to 
             be ambidextrous learning organizations and how 
             this fits into the global economy
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  Organizational Structure
           Organizational structure refers to the 
            formalized arrangement of interaction 
            between and responsibility for the tasks, 
            people, and resources in an organization
                         It is most often seen as a chart, 
                             often a pyramidal chart, with
                positions or titles and roles in cascading 
                                                    fashion 
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  Simple Organizational Structure
             A simple organizational structure is one where 
              there is an owner and a few employees and 
              where the arrangement of tasks, responsibilities, 
              and communication is highly informal and 
              accomplished through direct supervision 
             This type of structure can be very demanding on 
              the owner-manager
             Most businesses in this country and around the 
              world are of this type 
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