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This assignment seeks to help you understand the answer to a broader concern and that is, ‘What are some of the basics of organizational design?'
Please answer the following questions:
• What insight can you offer about the four main challenges facing designers of organizations?
• If the objective is to create an effectively designed organization need these four challenges be addressed at the same time?
• How are these four challenges related to each other?
• If a manager wished to design a mechanistic organization, what design choice would he or she face? Would these choices differ if an organic structure was the desired form?
• How might the ideas of contingency theory be described?
Hint:
When thinking about how to respond to these questions, frame them from the point of view of one type of organization such as a church, or professional service organization or a professional sports team, etc. It will simplify your responses.
Please limit your response to this assignment to a maximum of four single spaced, typed pages. Where necessary please identify relevant theories and examples noted in the text. In some instances, your responses should take the form of a summary, in your own words, of the main ideas of particular sections of the chapter. Please cite your sources in the text and please reference them at the end of your assignment. Please end your write-up with one paragraph that suggests what you think is the importance of this assignment.
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