The purpose of this paper is to review the concept, measure methods and types of organization structure in order to develop organization theory.
Although there is no agreed definition of organization structure, it is now usually understood to imply a...
The purpose of this paper is to review the concept, measure methods and types of organization structure in order to develop organization theory.
Although there is no agreed definition of organization structure, it is now usually understood to imply a configuration of activities that is characteristically enduring and persistent.
The measure of organization structure may be divided into analytical and global measure. The former use to measure the degree of organization structure exprienced by organization member on a day to day basis and to the extent that such information is not biased, describe the emergent organization. The latter, on the other hand, commonly used to indicates that it relate to the formal and designed structure of the organization.
Many writers have sought to identify different types of the organization structure . Most of these have taken as their starting point -Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy. A recurring issue in the modern study of organizations has been how far bureaucracy is a unitary concept. A popular presentation of unitary demensional concept has been the study of Burns and Stalker. In the study, they classified organization structure into mechanistic and organismic structure . On the other hand, the researcher at Aston university made taxonomy to four main types to have applied the three principal factors of structure emerging from their major study.