DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES.

PRE-BUREAUCRATIC STRUCTURE

The organizations without particular and standard policies and procedures are known to be Pre-Bureaucratic Structure. This structure is mainly used by small scale industries or the firms with less amount of employees which they can perform simpler and easier tasks. This structure is completely autocratic, all decisions will be taken by top management. The organizational growth depends on employee’s work and the pressure on them by the government. The entrepreneurs know that the development of their ventures completely depends on the management style they took towards their employees.

ENTREPRENEURIAL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The typical structure with a simple and one operating system with top management and one or few employees with flexible structuring is known as Entrepreneurial Organizational Structure.

Advantages

• In this structure the decisions will be taken quickly because decisions are taken
• In this structure the top management will have complete control on the firm and employees due to less number of chain of command.

Disadvantages

• This structure only suits small scale firms, it cannot be practiced in large scale
• It will become difficult to make decisions when the organization grows.

SIMPLE ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

The structure with centralized authority, with wide span of control ,little departmentalization and with low work specialization is known as Simple Organization Structure.

Advantages

• The owner will have heavy control on the operations of the firm.
• All the decisions and commands for the employees will get from the top management so the communication between them will increase.

Disadvantages

• The top management or owner will become under pressure or workload.
• The employees also took more time accomplishing a task due to getting approval from the owner.

BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

Bureaucratic Organization structure mainly focused on larger or complex scale industries. This structure mainly uses tall or flat organization structure. It will always have clear cut roles and responsibilities to each employee.

TALL ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

This structure is mainly used by complex or large firms in which there are a lot of employees and departments. Each employee will have each manager, the work for the employee will be designated by the manager and the manager will be under supervisor. So there will be a long chain of designations.

Advantage

This structure helps in getting a clear cut of the command chain, thus it increases the importance of decisions and determines how to complete a specific task.

Disadvantage

Due to heavy structure there are many managers, so it tooks much more time to generate a decision. The employees will not have the right to take decisions on their own.

FLAT ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The Flat Organizational Structure is the same as Tall Organization Structure. But the chain of command will be less when compared with Tall. In this structure the employees will be more authorized and empowered. Also employees work as a team to accomplish an objective or to resolve a problem.

Advantage

This structure allows the employees to get more freedom and authority which helps them to make their own decisions and also increases communication between employee and top management.

Disadvantage

Due to lack of managers, the owner or the CEO will get overloaded, so those decisions will not become perfect due to lack of time.

POST-BUREAUCRATIC STRUCTURE

This structure is completely authorized and strict. The main component of this structure is it uses modern techniques like Culture Management, Total Quality Management and Matrix Management. This structure was developed by Max Weber in the 1980s as a level of his bureaucracy. This structure mainly headed on command and authority. It also focuses on team work which helps in achieving goals of the organization .

INVERTED TRIANGLE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

As from the studies it is clear that the empowerment of an organization is based on its structure. And the structure will always be based in the form of social scale or hierarchy. The communication, chain of command and division of labor will be done from top to bottom but in this case it is reversed and the employees get powered. Employees get the prominent roles and the decision making power or ownership. Such a structure is known as Upside down or Inverted triangle or pyramid organizational structure. This structure gives the employees best and better ideas about the goals and objectives of the organization and how to achieve it.

ADVANTAGES

• Greater decision making team gives the subordinates more satisfaction.
• Fewer decision making and levels of management.
• Supervision cost is

DISADVANTAGES

• For the expansion of business the flat structures will not be helpful.
• It causes difficulties to supervise the subordinates directly.

EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Emerging or traditional organizational structure helps how to achieve activities like organizational goals,supervision,coordination, controlling and task allocation. And it helps in finding how much the organization should be flexible, caring, efficient and innovative to achieve market competitive advantage.

Pro’s

• Helps to accelerate organization learning and encourages both individual and organizational knowledge.
• It helps to access the global market.
• Shares the costs and skills.

Con’s

• Harder to find out the beginning point and ending point of an organization.
• It is difficult to acquire new managerial
• Results to loss of control on emerging technologies.

STAKEHOLDERS ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

A group or a person who is concerned or interested in participation in an organization is known as a Stakeholder. The Stakeholder may be shareholders, suppliers, a community of business, creditors or unions. The Stakeholders have the right to involve in the actions and also can participate in decision making. All the Stakeholders will not be treated equally. Stakeholders are of two types:

1. Internal Stakeholder
2. External Stakeholder

INTERNAL STAKEHOLDER

Employees, shareholders and managerial employees are considered as Internal Stakeholders. Internal Stakeholders have direct participation in decision making and the resources in the organization. All the employees treated the same in their credit due their influence in the success of the organization. The three groups set up the goals and work together to accomplish it.

EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER

External Stakeholders includes suppliers, government, public, customers and unions. External Stakeholders evaluate the organization and also improve goals and values in the society. The decisions taken by the Internal Stakeholders approved or the External Stakeholder can show disagreement towards it.

Pro’s

• Increased training and career path results for better motivation.
• It helps for quick response due to the small chain of command.
• Senior managers can fully concentrate on strategy planning.

Con’s

• Sometimes it results in the loss of control for the senior management.
• Results increase in training cost.
• Duplicates the roles within the organization.
• Inexperienced managers will take out poor decisions.