Structure, Culture, and Strategies.
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Discuss how organizational structure and culture impact short and longer term strategies. Please include references.
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Depending on the size and nature of operations within an organization, authority of certain departments is detrimental safeguarding control over the decision making process and allocated resources. In many circumstances, subunits can gain power over subunits by default of structure design and culture within the organization in question. Understanding how and when to leverage this power over other units lies in the short and long term strategies of the department. The solution discusses how this structure and culture provides this power to them.
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Depending on the size and nature of operations within an organization, authority of certain departments is detrimental safeguarding control over the decision making process and allocated resources. In many circumstances, subunits can gain power over subunits by default of structure design and culture within the organization in question. Understanding how and when to leverage this power over other units lies in the short and long term strategies of the department. Below we'll discuss how this structure and culture provides this power to them.
Organizational structure and culture lead to the amount of power subunits have over others based on the importance they play to management and core domains. Organizational ...
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