Learning Intentions

Students will be able to:

1. Compare and contrast ‘flat’ and traditional management

structures2. Suggest and justify a management structure for

particular companies

Management Structures

Business Management

AOS 2: Internal Environments of LSOs

Management Structure (Chap. 4)

• Definition• Bureaucracy• Changes in

organisational structure (flat)

• Horizontal vs. Vertical structure

• Functional, divisional and matrix structures

• Representing structures in diagrams

• Pros & Cons of each structure

• Organic & Network Structures

Corporate Culture(Chap. 4)

• Definition• Elements of

corporate culture• Real vs. Official• Management’s

role in developing• How can it be

changed or improved?

Policy Development& Ethics (Chap. 4)

• Definition• Macro pressures

on policy• Operating

pressures on policy• Internal pressures

on policy• Steps in policy

development• Policy evaluation• Ethics & CSR

Management Roles, Skills & Styles (Chap. 5)

• Definitions• Planning• SWOT Analysis• Good leadership• Controlling• Management Styles:

definitions, pros, cons, example

• Situational Approach• Management skills:

delegation, communication etc

• Competencies• Skills & Styles

AREA OF STUDY 2 – Internal Environments of LSOs

☐ ☐ ☐☐

AOS 1 SACsClass Average: 71%

While we are working I will hand these back later in the

lesson.

Homework Questions

From Wednesday’s class

Read over the 'Network Organic Structures' Sheet and…b) Looking at page 2, detail the advantage to Air in using a 'virtual' or 'network' structure in less than 100 words.Read over the link to the W.L. Gore Cast Study and complete the following questions:a) How are Gore employees different to normal employees in terms of their relationship to the ownership of the company?b) Identify and explain how Gore's structure not resemble that of a typical hierarchal organisation?c) How do all Gore workers have more responsibility and power relative to those at the bottom of traditional hierarchal organisations?

Questions

You are competing teams of management consultants, vying for the business of a new company looking to design its management structure. One team will lobby for a traditional structure, the other a flat on. You each have 25 minutes to research and assemble your case before presenting it as a group.

Traditional – If flat structures are so great, why are so many organisations still using a traditional structure? Research what benefits a traditional structure can bring and why a flat structure isn’t for everyone.

Flat – It’s all the rage and for good reason (right?). Figure out the arguments for adopting this management structure and present them to beat the traditional team to the contract. Identify what is wrong with the traditional structure and how flat structures address these problems.

Class debate: Flat vs. Traditional

Q & A

Q1. Describe an organic/network structure.

Q2. Compare and contrast a matrix and functional management structure.

Q3. A new engineering firm is considering opening in Horsham next year and trying to decide whether to adopt a traditional or flat management structure. Analyse these two structures. Suggest and justify the use of one for this engineering firm.

Homework

• None for this weekend! Enjoy it