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Strategic Management

Notes 11.11 Review Questions

1. In your opinion, what fundamental requirements does an organisational structure fulfill?
2. Do you agree with the statement that work can be performed more efficiently if employees
are allowed to specialize? Why/why not?
3. What do you see as the reason behind the recent trend of most organisations encouraging
managers to delegate authority to the lowest possible level?

4. In your opinion, which aspects of an organisation determine the best design for it?
5. Compare and contrast the functional and divisional structures?
6. Give example of an organisation that has successfully employed the matrix structure.
Analyse its success mantra.
7. Prove that network structure can weaken the employee loyalty.
8. Illustrate the advantages due to which some organisations sell a single product or variations
on one product.
9. "Being boundary-less can be the disadvantages for an organisation". Explain
10. Suggest any three advantages of modular organisations.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. superstructure 2. infrastructure

3. Unity of command 4. Centralization
5. scalar 6. Delegation
7. organisational design 8. diversified
9. matrix 10. network

11. decentralized 12. more
13. boundaryless 14. expertise
15. composite

11.12Further Readings

Books Burt R.S., Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition, Harvard University
Press: Cambridge,
Garud R., Kumaraswamy A., Technological and Organisational Designs for
Realizing Economies of Substitution, Strategic Management, Journal.

Online links www.indiastudychannel.com/.../70029-Types-organisational-structure
www.marcbowles.com/courses/adv.../amc3_ch6two1
www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/courseinfo/.../MGMT206SUppt

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