An Overview of Emerging Concepts influencing Organizational Designs

Proper attention and supervision is required for designing. There are many factors that influence
the structure of an organization.

1.     Environment:
It is an aggregate of all the factors,
conditions, events, and influences that surround and affect the activities of
an organization which analyze the environment in which it operates while
designing its structure. The environment is divided into internal environment
and external environment. Internal environment includes strengths and weakness
and external environment includes opportunities and threats.

a.   Strengths:sounds
finances, low cost, flexibility, effective marketing, efficient
administrations, good relationships with suppliers are the strength of an
organization.

b.   Weaknesses: Insufficient
funds, late response to customer requirements, limited product range, and
inefficient production are the weakness of an organization.

c.    Opportunities: Declining
performance of competitors, access to potential customers, leverage in
political and legal standards, development of new distribution channels are the
examples of opportunities.

d.   Threats: Rise
is raw material prices, high rate of attrition, improved competitive products
etc.

2.    Organizational size: It is defined by a number of
employees and the businesses of an organization.

3.     Organization’s strategy: The strategy of the
organization should be will fitted with the organization’s structure.

4.     Technology: The advent of advanced technologies has automated the
different processes of organizations. This has created a less need for human
resources.