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Organizational Design
Appex Corporation
Functional Structure
A functional structure is a design that groups
people on the basis of their common skills,
expertise, or resources they use
Functional structure is the bedrock of horizontal
differentiation
An organization groups tasks into functions to
increase the effectiveness with which it achieves its
goals
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Product Structure
A divisional structure in which products (goods or
services) are grouped into separate divisions
according to their similarities or differences
Organizations need to decide how to coordinate its
product activities with support functions
Support functions centralized at the top of the
organization, or,
Multiple sets of support functions, one for each
product division
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Multidivisional Structure
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Multidivisional Structure
Multidivisional structure: structure in which each
product divisions has its own set of support
functions
Most Fortune 500 companies use a multidivisional
structure
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Multidivisional Structure
Three main levels of management: Corporate
managers, divisional managers, functional
managers
Provides increased control corporate managers
monitor the performance of divisional managers
Each division is its own profit center individual
divisions profitability can be clearly evaluated
Facilitates an internal labor market most able
divisional managers are promoted to become
corporate managers
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