Solomon People Solutions

Organization Structure

This training course will introduce you to new skills that will help increase your performance and the support you offer your team, department and manager.

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Medium of Instruction: English
Duration of the program: 16 hours

Description

 

  • Understand the key concepts that underpin the organizational structure adopted by all organizations.
  • Identify the main dimensions of organizational structure.
  • Appreciate the concepts of Force and Form as they relate to the organization
  • Detail six models of organizational structure.
Who Should Attend this program?

Our target audience are executives who need to use and/or understand creative ways of solving problems and skills to take decisions to work in an efficient and effective manner in an organization. 

Program Outline

What is an Organization?

Key Concepts:

Division of Labor

Division of Labor – Advantages

Division of Labor – Disadvantages

Span of Control

Optimal Span of Control

Configuration

Administrative Hierarchy

The Organizational Chart

Dimensions of Organizational Structure

• Specialization

• Standardization

• Formalization

• Centralization

• Configuration

• Traditionalism

Four Underlying Dimensions

Structuring of Activities

Concentration of Authority

Line Control of the Workforce

Supportive Component

Forces and Forms within Organizations

Organizational Force

• Force of Direction

• Force of Efficiency

• Force of Proficiency

• Force of Concentration

• Force of Innovation

• Co-operation & Competition

Mintzberg’s Organizational Forms:

Entrepreneurial Form

Machine Form

Professional Form

Adhocracy Form

Diversified Form

Models of Organizational Structures:

Bureaucratic

Vertical

Horizontal

Departmentalization by Business Function

Departmentalization by Product Function

Networks

· Internal

· Dynamic

· Vertical

· virtual

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    Here is what some of the previous participants of this program had to say:

    “We learnt a lot of new techniques which will help us to implement in our organisation”

    “It was brought across to us in a such a way that we have go back and implement”

    Beginning of the program:

    Each participant has to fill in a pre-training need form to ascertain their expectations that can be catered to by the facilitator.

    At the end  of the program

    Each participant has to submit a Post Training Action plan for implementation and to ascertain the Return on Investment.