The prevailing organisational structure will affect ability and willingness to change. Organisational structure defines how we allocate work tasks, who reports to whom in the sense of an organisational chart, the formal coordinating mechanisms, and interaction patterns within the organisation. The organisational structure is like the skeletal system within the human body, it provides our shape, it determines our limitations and boundaries, it hold us up, and holds us together.
There are several topics you should consider at this point:
After having read the material in the subsections listed above, you should be ready to conduct an organisational structure analysis.
Organisational
Structure Analysis Tool
The analysis
tool provides a framework for you to assess the attributes
of the organisational structure. The prevailing organisational
structure will affect people’s ability and willingness
to change. In this analysis tool, we look at two different structural analyses.-->
The first will help you to understand how the organisational structure will help or hinder the implementation of your innovation.
The second focuses on the structural characteristics that may impact implementation. The tool specifically looks at occupational complexity, formalisation of rules and procedures, and the centralisation of power.
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