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A Feedback-based Process of Corporate Structur Design

Ghazanfari, Hossein | 2008

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 39085 (44)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Management and Economics
  6. Advisor(s): Modarres, Abdolhamid
  7. Abstract:
  8. Designing the structure of organization is one of the most important issues confronting all managers, especially those in large corporations. Structure design process consists of making several trade-offs about parameters that are affected with various contingency factors. This leads manages to confusion so some of them have no plans for progressing this process. Referring to organization theory and design, one sees a large number of models of organizational structure design. But there is not any means to compare them with each other. In this research, next the introduction of a conceptual feed-back model of organizational structure design process, three well-known processes in the last three decades was examined results the following points:
    1-Having limited options for archetypes and pre-defined relationships between them and the contingencies, although makes the archetype selection easier but decreases the innovation and opportunity range of the designers; so it needs to find an appropriate balance between range of options and selection process complexity.
    2-One should consider the organization level concept in the design process.In this research two main groups of questions are answered:
    1-Which parameters will be determined in the structure design process?
    2-How these parameters will be determined?
    Chapters four and five answer the first cluster of questions by dividing them in two groups: grouping parameters in chapter four and coordination mechanism in chapter five.So the last chapter will explain a step-by step design process of the corporate-level structure
  9. Keywords:
  10. Organizational Structure ; Corporation ; Grouping ; Coordination Mechanism ; Archetype

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