Divisional Structure
One type of organizational structure, known as divisional structure, tends to encourage decentralization of authority. It can be organized around products, geography or types of customers.
Series: Putting It Together: The Principles Of Organizing
Matrix Structure
One type of organizational structure, known as matrix structure, involves an overlay of two different forms of structure. It temporarily groups together specialists from different functional departments or divisions to work on special project or pro...
Series: Putting It Together: The Principles Of Organizing
Organizational Structure Case Study: Patagonia
At Patagonia, which produces high quality, outdoor clothing, the organizational structure originally was based on a steep hierarchy, with up to eight levels between the individual working in production and the CEO. In time, however, that structure w...
Series: Putting It Together: The Principles Of Organizing
Tillie Olsen: "I stand here ironing"
This moving dramatization of Tillie Olsen's frequently anthologized "I Stand Here Ironing" is an unvarnished exploration of an impoverished single mother's ambivalence toward her worth as a parent and her 19-year-old daughter's future. Rich in subte...
Series: Tillie Olsen: Ironing Out Life
Transcript: ♪ YOU CAN'T GO. WHO'S GONNA CLEAR AND WASH IF YOU LEAVE♪ I'VE GOT CUSTOMERS OUT THERE. THANKS. [WATER RUNNING] ANNA'S VOICE: WE'D TAKEN A BUS
Putting Emotional Lives on the Front Burner
According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in seven high school students reported they had seriously considered suicide. The principal at Hamilton High School is doing everything he can to prevent any more student suicides.
Online Social Networking Puts Teens at Risk
Teenagers are exposed to threats in cyberspace, particularly through social networking websites. Cyber safety includes personal safety, information safety, situational safety, and privacy issues. Teens feel safe because they think they are anonymous.
How to Put Money to Work
A young engineer spends his first paycheck on a large HD television. Advice to young people is to be deliberate about savings and spending. Keep spending in check by distinguishing between wants and needs.
Putting Skinner's Work in Perspective
Skinner's work provided a scientific methodology to investigate the behavior of real individuals, paving the way for new findings about behavior. Skinner organized his findings into a set of general principles that enabled application the new k...
1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion is Put Down
The Whiskey Rebellion is put down by George Washington.
Power Imperative, The: Taking Charge
talent and building alliances with career civil servants. It was important at State, Baker remembers, to work out the proper balance between the people he
Subject: working out the proper balance
Transcript: to work with them. You need to find out who among the permanent civil servants are The most competent. You need to quickly identify them, give them