Question

‘An organization should be designed to provide both vertical and horizontal information flow as necessary to accomplish the organisation’s goals’. In the light of this statement explain the strategic orientation of organization structure with examples.

Answer 1

There are many types of organizational structures. There’s the more traditional functional structure, the divisional structure, the matrix structure and the flatarchy structure. Each organizational structure comes with different advantages and disadvantages and may only work for companies or organizations in certain situations or at certain points in their life cycles.