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Assignment:

Establishing Organizational Culture and Structure

Objectives

• To learn more about organizational structures.
• To consider the relationship between organizational culture and structure.

Introduction

As we learned in this chapter, an organization's culture consists of a system of shared beliefs and values that develops within the organization and guides the behavior of its members. An organization's culture and its structure are closely intertwined.

The purpose of this exercise is to examine the relationship between an organization's culture and its structure. To accomplish this, you will design your own company.

Instructions

Your first task is to start your own organization. Your organization can be anything from a baseball team to a car company to a bank. Once you have determined what type of organization your group wants to create, the group needs to establish the organizational values that will underlie your organization's culture. Once the values are established, we want you to propose two different organizational structures. Begin by examining the types of organizational structures covered in the text. Your first organizational chart should represent your proposed structure at the beginning of your organization's inception. The second organization chart should represent the structure of your organization once it has 300 or more employees.

Questions for Discussion

1. What are your organization's values? Explain why they were chosen.
2. Map your organization's values using the competing values framework presented in your textbook. What type of culture have you created?
3. How do the values and culture of your organization correspond to its structure? Explain.
4. How did your organization chart change once your company reached 300 employees? What type of structure does this chart represent? Explain.
5. Do you believe your organization is more mechanistic or organic? Explain.