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• 1 Definitions

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• Three types of organisations to be used

  Institutional, instrumental, and functional sense

• 2 The organisation and its environment

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• What is Governance structure and management level?

  Hour-glass model

• What are Tall and Flat organisations?

  Tall is with a lot of sub structures and flat with only some

• What is a strategic decision?

  When it will impact the organisational objectives, goals, or even policy matters

• What is operational decision?

  Are undertaken by lower or mid-level managers that relate to the business’s daily operations or functions. 

• 3 Design and structure of an organisation

• What is the design and structure of an organisation?

  • Grouping of activities to be performed into functions, duties and tasks of departments, work groups and individual employees
  • Determining on decison-making authority / relations
  • Implementation of communication channels and mechanisms, guidelines and procedures to make communication and co-ordination possible

• 3.2 Operational processes

• How to support the operational processes?

  Human resource management, logistics, and information management

• 3.3 Control /Structure

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• Who will do what and how should it be co-ordinated?

  • Division of work
  • Tasks/autohority/responsability
  • Grouping tasks
  • Projects groups!!!
  • Scope of control

• What is the functional relations?

  HR-department: HR-head manager, under which we find HR managers --> hierarchical structure

• What is horizontal relations?

  Focus on skill proficiency rather than management hierarchy. Priority of project delivering. All employees same opportunities etc.