Understanding Organizational Design

In this lesson about organizational structure, learn what a span of control is, how it affects management, and the basic rules for deciding their size.

This lesson covers what a bureaucracy is, who defined it as a term, and the different advantages and disadvantages within a bureaucratic structure.

In this lesson, learn how grouping tasks according to their functions in your business can provide clear roles and also make things run more efficiently.

This lesson discusses the limits of the functional structure of organization, and introduces the divisional structure, which is better for larger organizations.

In this lesson, learn how divisional organization in a company supports a company's product and how types of organization are specialized for product needs.