Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Behavior, 8e
Schermerhorn, Hunt, and
Osborn
Prepared by
Michael K. McCuddy
Valparaiso University
Organizational design.
– The process of choosing and implementing a
structural configuration.
– The choice of an appropriate organizational
design depends on the firm’s:
• Size.
• Operations and information technology.
• Environment.
• Strategy for growth and survival.
Organizational size.
– Larger organizations cannot be bigger versions
of their smaller counterparts.
• Large firms have a much larger number of direct
personal contacts that must be managed.
• Large firms have many core operations
technologies in a wide variety of specialized units.
• Large firms are bureaucracies.