HRM 1101 Lecture 9: Organization Structure

• School: Temple University
• Department: Human Resource Management
• Course: HRM 1101
• Professor: Kate Nelson

Document Summary

Organizational structure is how an organization coordinates people, communication, the movement of resources across the board, to accomplish what it"s supposed to accomplish. Hierarchy (centralized) - all decisions are made at the top, Communication flows mostly from top to bottom. Designed for the old-fashioned command and control model. Employees are empowered to make decisions t. Don"t have to ask their manager to get permission. Pros: - drive the employee"s engagement less consistent. Employees can address a problem but more duplication. More innovative => business still prefer this one. People in the different department don"t talk to each other. Matrix structure - dotted line reported relationship. => ge has ge turbine, ge finance, etc. for a different company, there are different hr departments. So, when the hr in ge turbine meets a challenge, they can contact the hr in ge finance to ask for advice.