Strategy Development Report
Evaluate the arguments about the complex relationship of strategy and structure.
Understand the factors and principles involved in designing the structure of an organisation to meet its chosen strategy.
Outline the different types of organisational structures and assess their advantages and disadvantages in relation to a particular strategy.
Identify typical symptoms of inappropriate structure – low morale, delays in decision making, conflict/lack of co-ordination, failure to innovate and escalating administrative costs.
Strategic management process and organisational structure, external environment and organisational structure, defining organisational structure, organisational hierarchy choices (tall structure and flat structure), centralised structure and decentralised structure
Types of organisational structure: small (or simple) structure, functional structure, multi-divisional structure (M-form), holding (or corporate) company structure (H-form), matrix structure, multinational/transnational structure and innovative structure
