Organizational Structure Report: Impact on Behavior and Technology Use

This report delves into the concept of organizational structure, emphasizing its role in shaping employee behavior within organizations. It explores various organizational structure types, including hierarchical, matrix, horizontal, and network structures, highlighting their characteristics and applications. The report also examines how technology can be integrated into organizational design, discussing its influence on efficiency, physical layout, and employee knowledge. Through an analysis of these elements, the report provides insights into how organizational structure and technology intersect to impact business sustainability and performance. The report also provides references to the sources used for the assignment.

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Evaluate how organizational structure helps shape behavior in organizations
An organizational structure is known for being the system that outlines how certain
activities as well as direction in which the organization will be achieving their targeted set of
goals. The business organizational structure is known for performing various types of activities
such as ruling the employees, diversifying roles of employees as well as assigning various types
of responsibilities to departments and employees working in the organization. Organizational
structure also helps in determining how information will be flowing in the levels present in the
company (Smircich 2017).
According to the author Ivolga & Booth, (2019) the organizational structure is also
known for helping to shape the behavior in the organization. A good organizational structure is
known for establishing relationship among the business manager as well as the teams engaged in
the company along with the employees are workers working out with various types of
responsibilities. A perfect organizational structure help the organization by grouping people
together in a certain way which elicits or prevents specific negative behavior as well as it helps
them in knowing how its structure helps in shaping the employees behavior in small business as
well as in long business organization.
Good organizational structure also helps in providing best work culture for the employees
so that they can accomplish their strategic goals aligning with the company goals. Good
organizational structure helps in dividing the team and helping the team members to arise various
types of challenges and flourish with their responsibility. It also helps in building good
communication problem solving skills and maintaining diversity thus helps in shaping the
behavior in organization.

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Examine the different types of organizational structure.
There are different types of organizational structure like the hierarchy structure, metric
structure, horizontal structure and the network structure.
The hierarchical care model of organizational structure is one of the most popular
organizational chart type where the structure consists of grouped employees having clear one
supervisor. The hierarchical structure consists of 16 under which the finance team, technical
team, HR team and administrative team is present within the company.
The matrix organizational structure is known for reporting various types of relationship
set up by greed or matrix, it helps in engaging similar people with similar skills who are pool for
particular assignments or tasks. Example of a matrix structure can be represented by putting all
engineers in one engineering department who will be reporting to an engineering manager assign
with various types of work
The horizontal or flat structure of organization is known for getting adopted by most
small companies and short business startups in the early stage. The most important thing about
the structure is that many levels of the middle management are eliminated which enables
employees to take various types of decisions independently as well as quickly. Therefore
according to the author Ivolga & Booth, (2019) avail trend work force can be more productive so
as bi directly getting involved in various types of decision making process and developmental
training process. The horizontal or flat structure is known for working well with small company
is because referred as well as work in small companies are relative heat transfer and rather than
the big organizations.

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The network organizational structure is known for giving a visualization of both the
external relationship as well as the internal relationship between top level management and the
managers present in the organization. The main idea behind the network structure based
organization is based from the social media networks. According to the author Leithy, (2017)
using a network based organizational structure is also sometime disadvantages as because it is
more complex. There are more control, more bottom floor and few types in the decision making
process of a network structure.
Examine how technology can be integrated into organizational structure and
design.
According to the author McShane, Newman & Martin, (2018) technology is present all
around us, therefore it is also known for impacting the structure of the organization. That is
introducing various types of new technological measures in the business will be helping the
employees to get various types of knowledge regarding the use of latest technologies.
Technology can also change the physical layout of the organization that is it might bring a shift
from the hand filling machines to the use of latest computers in the organization. However it can
be said that for a better sustainability of the business in the long run technology creates positive
impact in the organizational structure of the company. Technology also makes the organizational
structure more efficient.

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References
McShane, S., Olekalns, M., Newman, A., & Martin, A. (2018). Organisational behaviour.
Leithy, W. E. (2017). Organisational culture and organisational performance. International
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Scott, T., Mannion, R., Davies, H., & Marshall, M. (2018). Healthcare performance and
organisational culture. CRC Press.
Smircich, L. (2017). Concepts of culture and organizational analysis. In The Anthropology of
Organisations (pp. 255-274). Routledge.
Ivolga, M., & Booth, S. (2019). Beyond the figures of organisational culture surveys.