Question

Organizations must build internal capabilities and core competencies and develop alternative solutions to remain competitive.“Structuring the organization and organizing the work effort in a strategy-supportive fashion has four aspects.” What are these aspects?

. “To align the firm’s organizational structure with its strategy, it is important to make strategy-critical activities the main building blocks.”What are the four basic types of organizational structures?

Answer 1

1. structuring the organization and organizing the work effort in a strategy-supportive fashion has four aspects . following are these four aspects-------------

1. Deciding which value chain activities to perform internally and which ones to outsource.

2. Aligning the firms organizational stracture with its strategy.

3. Deciding how much authority to centeralize at the top and how much to delegate to down-the-line managers and employees.

4. Facilitating the necessary collaboration and coordination with external partner and strategic allies.

2. It is important to make strategy -critical activities the main building blocks, following are the four basic types of organizational structures------

1. Functional structure----functional structure of the organization devides the company on the basis of the speciality.

2. Divisional structure----------It divides the company on the basis of different product and the projects.

3. Matrix-------under this structure employees have multiple bosses and reporting lines.

4. simple structure--------it is a simple structure under this organization is divided on the basis of hierarchu.