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.
Organizational Re-Design: Mercy Hospital and Medical Center
To operate more efficiently in the increasingly competitive world of health care, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center instituted a massive organizational re-design called Care 2000. In Mercy's former design, the simplest tasks were parceled out to a m...
Organizational Design and Change
Like Hospitals everywhere, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center has had to deal with drastic changes in a business environment that has become increasingly competitive.
Organizational Design and Diversification: Fluor Corporation, The
To implement its diversification strategy, Fluor Daniel adopted a highly flexible, diversified network organizational design that aligned separate business units with a wide variety of engineering and construction markets.
Organizational Structure
Organizing, as the word suggests, is the phase of management that defines the structure of an organization. It lays out a set of parts and coordinates efforts to achieve goals developed in the planning phase. In practice, however, many organizations...
Entrepreneurship and Managing
This clip points out that the long-term success of a small business is dependent on a number of factors, including sound management.
Staffing
This clip looks at staffing, which begins with the recruitment of qualified candidates for each position, and also includes orientation, training, and regular evaluation.
Goals, Plans and Strategies
This clip talks about the importance of creating a business plan that clearly and realistically outlines goals and strategies for a new company.
Organizational Structure: Traditional vs. Non-Traditional
Although specific organizational designs vary from company to company, there has been a broad trend away from what might be called mechanistic organizational designs toward more organic ones. Mechanistic designs depend on centralized authority and m...
Organizing
This clip explores another management function: organizing. This is the process by which the entrepreneur decides what work needs to be done and who is going to do it. Organizing becomes especially important as the firm expands from a one-person ope...