CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Building Blocks of Organizations …
IN DESIGNING THE BUILDING blocks of organization four questions face the organizer.
- What should the units of organization be?
- What components should join together, and what components should be kept apart?
- What size and shape pertain to different components?
- What is the appropriate placement and relationship of different units?
From the earliest beginnings of work on organization, well over a century ago, these were the tasks the organizer had to confront before designing a structure.
We therefore now have a considerable amount of experience. There are no prescriptions for the design of ...
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