Managing your pocket money

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Organisational Structures
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Making Decisions

• Every business needs to decide how to organise
  itself
• How workers will be organised?
• Who will be in authority?
• How will messages be passed?

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Organisation Charts
Organisation charts are used to show this
information
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Hierarchical Structure

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Flat Structure
Jack
Jill
Level 1
Peter Legal Exec
Paul Legal Exec
Mary Legal Exec
Tim Office Mgr
Level 2
Mel C
Mel B
Emma
Victoria
Gerry
Simon
Art
Level 3
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Matrix

• The task culture is job or project orientated,
  best in a business with a relatively wide SOC and
  relatively few layers of hierarchy
• Appropriate when flexibility, creativity and
  teamwork are important. It strength lies in its
  adaptability, and the variety if offers
  specialist staff.
• Dilution of power and control are the prices paid
  by senior managers for fast response and more
  team work.

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Chain of Command

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Chain of Command

• The longer the chain of command, the more
  difficulties a business can face
• Messages can get lost or distorted
• Managing change can be a problem

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Span of Control

• The span of control is the number of people a
  worker directly controls

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Delayering
Making an organisation smaller by removing a
layer or the hierarchy
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Quick Recap

• The right to command a situation?
• A diagram will illustrates the structure of an
  organisation?
• The duty to complete a task?

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Quick Recap

• The way authority and power are passed down in a
  business
• The passing down of authority
• The order of levels of management from the lowest
  to the highest?
• The number of subordinates working under a
  superior