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    Edgar Schein proposes that there are four common elements of an organization's structure: common purpose, coordinated effort, division of labor, and hierarchy of authority. A common purpose unifies employees by communicating the organization's direction, strategy, and objectives. Coordinated effort involves teams working together maximizing resources. Division of labor assigns specialized tasks to individuals based on their abilities. The hierarchy of authority establishes a chain of command to validate who makes decisions when. These four elements define an organization's structure and culture.

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    Edgar Schein proposes that there are four common elements of an organization's structure: common purpose, coordinated effort, division of labor, and hierarchy of authority. A common purpose unifies employees by communicating the organization's direction, strategy, and objectives. Coordinated effort involves teams working together maximizing resources. Division of labor assigns specialized tasks to individuals based on their abilities. The hierarchy of authority establishes a chain of command to validate who makes decisions when. These four elements define an organization's structure and culture.

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    Edgar Schein proposes that there are four common elements of an organization's structure: common purpose, coordinated effort, division of labor, and hierarchy of authority. A common purpose unifies employees by communicating the organization's direction, strategy, and objectives. Coordinated effort involves teams working together maximizing resources. Division of labor assigns specialized tasks to individuals based on their abilities. The hierarchy of authority establishes a chain of command to validate who makes decisions when. These four elements define an organization's structure and culture.

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    Components of an Organization

    Edgar Schein, who was a prominent organizational psychologist, proposes four common
    elements of an organization’s structure: The Common purpose Coordinated effort, Division of
    labor, and the Hierarchy of authority. The manager’s perspective operations are made
    successful by defining the common purpose of creating a coordinated effort across the
    organization and organizing resources based on tasks and decision making. The four elements
    are relatively straightforward in theory, representing a critical component of an effective
    structure.

    Common Purpose is an organization without a clear purpose or mission that soon begins to
    drift and become disorganized. Common purpose unifies the employees or members, giving
    everyone the knowledge of the organization’s direction. This ensures effectiveness in
    communication across organizations (particularly large organizations with many moving parts) is
    a central task for managers. Managers communicate through this purpose by educating all
    employees on the general strategy, mission statement, values, and short- and long-term
    objectives of the organization.This common purpose will be achieved through coordinated effort
    of all individuals and groups within an organization.

    Coordinating effort involves working together as a team in a way that maximizes resources.
    The wide-ranging group’s diverse skill sets and personalities must be authorized in a way that
    adds value. The act of coordinating organizational effort is the most important responsibility of
    managers because it motivates and distributes human resources to capture value.

    Division of labor, also known as work specification for greater efficiency. It involves assigning
    specific parts of a broader task to different individuals within the organization based upon their
    particular abilities and skills. Using this element of an organization can distribute a complex
    work effort for specialists to represent. By systematically dividing complex tasks into specialized
    jobs, an organization uses its human resources more efficiently.

    Hierarchy of authority is essentially the chain of command. A control mechanism to validate


    the right people to do exact things at the right time. There are a wide variety of organizational
    structures, with more centralized authority than others. Hierarchy in decision making is a critical
    factor for success. Knowing who will make decisions under what conditions, enabling the
    organizations to be agile, while ambiguity of authority can often slow the decision-making
    process. Authority allows the organizations to set directions and select strategies, which can
    qualify a common purpose.

    Each of the four elements represents a necessary component of an effective structure. Further,
    Schein proposes that these elements are instrumental in defining the organization’s culture.

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