Essays on Flat Organization

Problem Identification

Ponsonby Pies has endeared to stay at the edge of competition. Even though gourmand pie was not common at its time of establishment, it ventured into this product regardless of the stock market crisis and decreased demand for pies. However, its organizational structure and culture may threaten its current achievements and expectations. The firm focuses so much on personal communication between the directors and workers as a move to engage employees. Although the engagement of employees has been proven to be very beneficial to the staff and the company at large, it is important to adopt effective strategies of ...

Abstract

Organizational structure influences the service delivery of the organization. Different organizational structures are used in healthcare organizations. These include bureaucratic structure, matrix, flat structure and hybrid organizational structure. Common in most health organizations is the bureaucratic structure that uses a top-down approach of management. However, due to certain challenges, organizations are using a hybrid organizational structure, as it eliminates the problems of using a single organizational structure.

Bureaucratic Organizations

A bureaucratic organizational structure consists of four basic characteristics. According to Finkelman and Kenner (2013), division of labor is a distinguishing characteristic of bureaucratic organization. Division of labor involves the specialization of tasks. Each employee is ...

Flat organization structures are the ones that there is no bureaucracy in that employees report directly to one manger. This means that there is no long hierarchy of management. This system is advantageous in several ways. It is cheaper since the top management is paid better than the other employees. Considering that, there are few people in the management positions, then it means less cash is used in payment of these people. In a flat organization, communication between the employees and the management is very easy. Employees therefore have the ability to consult whenever necessary hence, the activities in ...