Dr.

Muslima Zahan
Assistant Professor
School of Business and Economics
North South University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Summer
2020
 Grouping Tasks, Functions, and Divisions
 Allocating Authority and Responsibility-

hierarchy of authority, span of control

◦ Tall and Flat structure
◦ Minimum chain of command
 Integration and integrating mechanism
◦ Direct contact
◦ Liaison and
◦ Teams
 Organizational Design concern
◦ Product and technical expertise
◦ Geographic expertise
◦ Customer expertise
◦ Functional expertise
 International Business-
export/import
 Global Corporate Form- Products
 Global Corporate Forms- Functional
 Virtual Corporation
◦ Outsourcing
 Corporate Survival in the 21st Century
 Control
◦ Financial Control: information distortion and Transfer
pricing
◦ Behavioral Control: budget and standardization
◦ Organizational Culture: shared norms and values

 Reporting
◦ Financial
◦ Technological
◦ Market Opportunities
◦ Political
 Universalism
 Utilitarianism
 Machiavellianism
 Social contract theory

 Ethical Manager
◦ Moral
◦ Immoral
◦ Ammoral