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- 1. Strategy-Structure Typology
2. What is Strategy-Structure Typology?
3. StrategyStructure Typology
An approach to organizational structure is concerned with the
relationship between organizational strategy and structure
(Mintzberg, 1989).
In this approach, the labor component is divided into tasks and
these are achieved through coordination among those involved.
4. To achieve coordination, there are five strategies called
coordinating mechanisms through which work is monitored and
controlled.
5. 1. Mutual Adjustment
is making changes through informal communication which is both
direct and basic to simple and complex organizations.
6. 2. Direct Supervision
is coordination through personal command. That is, one individual
is responsible for work of others.
This strategy is similar to unity of command and scalar
principle.
7. 3. Standardization of Work Processes
is programming the contents of the work. In schools, this strategy
is apparent in job descriptions which govern the performance of
educators.
8. 4. Standardization of Outputs
is setting up the results of work.
9. 5. Standardization of Work Skills
is providing the kind of training to do the work. This strategy
provides indirect control of work. Training supplies workers with
patterns of work to be performed as well as the bases of
coordination.
10. Another component or dimensions is the key part of the
organization that plays the major role in determining the success
and failure of the organization.
According to Mintzberg, the key part consists of:
11. 1. The Strategic Apex
consists of the top administrators who are responsible for ensuring
that the organization serves its vision, mission and goals.
12. 2. The Opening Core
is made up of the actual workers who carry out the organizations
tasks.
13. 3. The Middle Line
consists of the administrators who connect the apex with e
operating core.
14. 4. The Technostructure
is the administrative component charged with the responsibility of
planning.
In some schools, it is composed of analysts, and research and
development personnel. They design, plan and train but they do not
directly manage.
15. 5. The Support Staff
is composed of specialized units that provide support to the
organization in the form ofindirect service.
16. The third basic dimension of an organization is the type of
decentralization it employs.
17. 1. Vertical Decentralization
is the distribution of power down the chain of command or shared
authority between superordinates and subordinates.
18. 2. Horizontal Decentralization
is the extent to which non-administrators including staff make
decisions or share authority between line and staff.
19. 3. Selective Decentralization
is the extent to which decision making is delegated to different
units within the organization.
20. The utilization of the three basic dimensions of the
organization will result in five structural configurations
namely:
21. 1. Simple Structure
->has its key parts, the strategic apex and uses direct
supervision and employs vertical and horizontal
decentralization.
22. 2. Machine Bureaucracy
->has technostructure as its key part and utilizes limited
horizontal decentralization and standardization of work
processes.
It has a high degree of formalization and specialization.
23. 3. Professional Bureaucracy
->has the operating core as its key part, uses standardization
of skills as its prime coordinating mechanism and employs vertical
and horizontal decentralization.
24. 4. Divisionalized Form
->has the middle line as its key part, uses standardization of
output as its prime coordinating mechanism and employs limited
vertical decentralization.
25. 5. Adhocracy
->has the support staff as its key part, uses mutual adjustment
as a means of coordination and maintains selective patterns of
decentralization.