Organizational Structure

Organizational Structure

IntroductIon For many decades, organization scientists have paid considerable attention to the link between knowledge and organization structure. An early contributor to these discussions was Max Weber (1922), who elaborated his concepts of professional bureaucracy. History shows a multitude of other descriptions and propositions which depict knowledge-friendly organization structures such as t...

Organizational Structure and Wage Structure

Cbe’s Organizational Structure

Principles of Organizational Structure

At its most basic, organizational structure is the configuration of the hierarchical levels and specialized units and positions within an organization, and the formal rules governing these arrangements (Rainey, 1997, p. 170). Other writers on organizations argue that performance evaluation and reward systems are additional key elements of organizational structure and must be designed carefully ...

Organizational Structure and Scalar Stress

It is a common observation in anthropology that larger societies tend to be more complex than smaller ones, and both size and complexity are normally considered to be major axes of variability in social evolution. Indeed, various measures of social-system size and organizational complexity are highly correlated Naroll (1956), for example, reports strong positive relationships between the popula...