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School of Business and Management: Organizational Structure Training (OST) MBA (2022 - 2024 Batch)
School of Business and Management: Organizational Structure Training (OST) MBA (2022 - 2024 Batch)
Takeaways
• Assess understanding of organizational structures
Contents
● Let us catch up !
● Report Format
● Sample Report
● Quiz
● Q and A
● Conclusion
Definition
● According to Keith Davis, "Organisation may be
defined as a group of individuals, large of small,
that is cooperating under the direction of executive
leadership in accomplishment of certain common
objectives.“
● According to Chester I. Barnard, "Organisation is
a system of co-operative activities of two or more
persons."
Formalization
Chain of command Departmentalization
Types of Structures
Divisional
Simple Structure Functional Structure Organization
Structure
Matrix Organization
Virtual Organization
Structure
Simple Structure
● A structure characterized
by a low degree of
specialization, wide spans
of control, authority
centralized in a single
person, and little
formalization
Functional Structure
● A functional structure is a design that groups
people on the basis of their common skills,
expertise, or resources they use.
● An organization groups tasks into functions to
increase the effectiveness with which it
achieves its goals.
● Organizations develop not only more
functions but also more specialization within
functions.
Divisional Structure
● Organizations most commonly adopt the
divisional structure to solve control
problems that arise with too many
products, regions, or customers
Hybrid Structures
Product
Divisional
President
Structure
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Virtual Organizations
● A collection of geographically
distributed, functionally and/or
culturally diverse aggregations of
individuals that is linked by electronic
forms of communication
Key actions
● A power point presentation (10-12 slides) summarizing the report and your learning is to be presented in your
mentoring class. The presentation is for 12 minutes presentation and 3 minutes question and answer from the
faculty mentor
Evaluation
● Credits: 2 Module Marks
● Marks: 100 MOOC completion 15
Project Report 50
Presentation 25
Quiz 10
TOTAL 100
Template
● OST Report
FAQ
I have finished the Udemy course. What should I do now?
● Please submit your screen shot of completion ( you will not get a course completion from Udemy) to the
faculty mentor.
FAQ
How many slides should be part of the PowerPoint presentation?
● A power point presentation (10-12 slides) summarizing the report and your learning is to be presented in
your mentoring class. The presentation is for 12 minutes presentation and 3 minutes question and answer
from the faculty mentor
What is the OST Quiz?
● This is a multiple-choice quiz of 10 Marks . Questions will be primarily be based on the Udemy course on
Organizational Structures and this presentation .This will run through Moodle / Google classroom. It is
currently slated for 17 th Aug 2021.
Who do I contact for any support / guidance
● Please contact your faculty mentor for any help
required by you