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Organization Structure Design

Organization Structure Design

Professor Chiu shifts the focus to organizational structure design, illustrating how tasks are divided, grouped, and coordinated within an organization.

Initially, the emphasis lies on work specialization, followed by departmentalization. Then, Professor explains the purposes of organization design, including the chain of command, span of control, centralization, decentralization, and formalization.

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