Short Answer

Part 1 (Respond in 150 words or more)

Discuss the elements of organizational designs and how organizational design is linked to organizational behavior, communication, delegation, job satisfaction, and employee motivation. What have you experienced in the workplace? 

Part 2 (Respond to this thought in 50 words or more)

A strategic, carefully planned organizational structure helps a business run effectively and efficiently. An ineffective structure can cause significant problems for a company, including lost profits, rapid employee turnover and loss in productivity. Management experts use the six basic elements of organizational structure to devise the right plan for a specific company. These elements are: departmentalization, chain of command, span of control, centralization or decentralization, work specialization and the degree of formalization. Each of these elements affects how workers engage with each other, management and their jobs in order to achieve the employer’s goals.

The new realities of business make it important for companies to adopt organization designs that can help them respond quickly to changing market conditions, roll out new services, and find value that was previously hidden in existing operations. The best way to do that is to address the six factors that play such a large role in increasing a company’s chances of becoming a top performer.