1. Mapping Out Organization – (Top Down Analysis) PowerPoint Project
++ Annual Report, Company Website, Them ++
PowerPoint Project
Slide#1 – Introduce Company Overview (Notespages)
Slide#2 – Agenda
Slide#3 – Board of Directors
Chairman of the Board with each member…bios., role, tenure, how will each board member help your company succeed, special skills or knowledge each board member bring to your organization.

2. Mapping Out Organization – (Top Down Analysis) PowerPoint Project
++ Annual Report, Company Website, Them ++
PowerPoint Project
Slide#4 – Corporate Mission Statement (Fill in Notespages)
Slide#5 – Executive Organizational Structure
Slide#6 – Type of Organizational Structure
(Line, Line & Staff, Matrix, Team, etc…)

3. In this section: Types of Organizational Structure
Managers constantly make decisions that affect the futures of their companies. This section discusses:
What Is Organizational Structure?
Types of Organizational Structure
Flat vs. Tall Structures

4. What You’ll Learn The four main types of organizational structures.
How to read an organizational chart.
The four main types of organizational structures.
The difference between staff and line functions.
The benefits of adopting a matrix or team structure.

5. Why It’s Important
Without an appropriate organizational structure, a business will not succeed.

6. Key Terms organizational chart • team structure
line function • flat structure
staff function • tall structure
matrix structure

7. What Is Organizational Structure?
Businesses exist to earn profits. To meet their goals, they organize their employees into some kind of structure.

8. Types of Organizational Structures
line structure
line and staff structure
matrix structure
team structure

9. Line Structure
With a line organizational structure, authority originates at the top and moves downward.

10. Line and Staff Structure
With line and staff organizational structure, line managers are assisted by employees performing staff functions.

11. Matrix Structure
A matrix organizational structure allows employees from different departments to come together temporarily to work on special project teams.
Fig 2-1

12. Team Structure
A team organizational structure brings together people with different skills in order to meet a particular objective.

13. Flat vs. Tall Structure
A flat structure has fewer levels with broader spans of management. A tall structure has more levels with narrower spans of management.

14. Fact and Idea Review
1. What is the purpose of an organizational chart?
2. What is a line function?
3. What is a staff function?
4. What is a matrix function?
Cont.

15. Fact and Idea Review cont.
5. How does the team structure differ from the line and staff structure?
6. True or False: A tall structure allows for greater employee power through delegation.