SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT

Organizational Structure Training (OST)

MBA (2023 – 2025 Batch)

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Contents
● Let us catch up !
● What lies ahead
● Some concepts

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Recap
• Course Name and Code: MBA181 Organization Structure
Training
• Grading: 2 credits, 100 marks
• In a manufacturing firm, Firm revenue should be Rs. 100
crores or above
•  For the late joiners, Students can report to campus and conduct a 15-day
OST (with permission to go out during the free afternoon and mentoring
hours). The student has to inform their mentors.
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Work dairy reporting format (to be submitted weekly to mentor)

Date Hours Details of work done

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Complete OST Make OST

Take the OST
OST Project report as per
format
presentation to
Mentor
quiz

Key actions

Stay in touch with your mentor and

mentoring peer group

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OST Report and Presentation

● Your OST Report should not be more than 30 pages inclusive of Annexures
● A power point presentation (10-12 slides) summarizing the report and your learning is to be presented in your
mentoring class. The presentation is for 12 minutes presentation and 3 minutes question and answer from
the faculty mentor

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OST Report resources

• OST Report Template
(Report Template to be included to ppt)

• OST Course Plan with evaluation parameters and rubric

(MBA181 OST 2023 course to be included to ppt)

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Chapter Details
Chapter I : Introduction to Organization : Organization’s history, Vision, Mission, objectives and strategies of the organization,
Key Result Areas (KRAs) of the organization.
Chapter 2 : Organization structure : Organization chart – Design & Structure, Advantages and drawbacks of the organization
structure, Policies and procedures followed.
Chapter 3: Functional Departments: Functions of various departments and their managers, System of accounting followed, Profile
of the products, Product promotional measures, Career planning and promotion policy of employees, Training measures, HRD
measures (including welfare measures), Manpower planning, Performance appraisal system, System followed for purchase of
materials, Views of managers at various levels and non-managerial staff by detailed interactions).
Chapter 4: SWOT Analysis (Company, Industry): SWOT analysis of the organization, Significant factors for success,
Recommendations to overcome the drawbacks and seize opportunities
Chapter 5: Functional Highlights across Key Result Areas :Financial performance, Financial highlights during the last three years,
Marketing performance etc., over the years, Future plans for growth of the organization.
Chapter 6: Findings, Recommendations and Conclusions: Modifications, if any, to the organization structure, observations on the
operations of the organization

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OST Presentation
• You are expected make a power point presentation (8 – 10 minutes) summarizing the
report and your learning

• The presentations will happen during group mentoring sessions when you are on
campus for regular classes

• The presentation dates are likely to be around week of 25-30 July, 2023 (the exact date
will be communicated later)

• Keep you presentation to about 8-10 slides

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OST Presentation
• You are expected make a power point presentation (8 – 10 minutes) summarizing the
report and your learning

• The presentations will happen during group mentoring sessions when you are on
campus for regular classes

• The presentation dates are likely to be around week of 25-30 July, 2023 (the exact date
will be communicated later)

• Keep you presentation to about 8-10 slides

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OST Presentation
• OST quiz will be held on 25th July 2023 in the mentoring class

• The quiz will be MCQ format

• MCQ will be from reading material in the drive sent to you and OST Report

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Evaluation
• This course has 2 credits and carries 100 marks. Marks will be reflected in the transcript
at the end of the first trimester.
Mark
Module
s
Regularity and Progress Report to
20
Mentor
Project Report 30
Completion Certificate 10
Presentation 20
Quiz 20
TOTAL 100
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● Imagine a bee colony which consist of 80,000

bees. The octagonal lattice work of the hive,
the golden nectar and surviva l of each bee
depends on the structure, coordination,
communication within the colony Queen,
drone ,worker all have a clear role to play.
Body composition and age determines role and
hierarchy

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Definition

● According to Keith Davis, "Organisation may be

defined as a group of individuals, large of small,
that is cooperating under the direction of executive
leadership in accomplishment of certain common
objectives.“
● According to Chester I. Barnard, "Organisation is
a system of co-operative activities of two or more
persons."

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Why is structure important?

● It enables members to know what their
responsibilities

● It frees the manager and the individual

workers to concentrate on their respective
roles and responsibilities

● It coordinates all organization activities so

there is minimal duplication of effort or
conflict.

● Shows to whom and for whom they are

responsible

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Key elements in organization structure

Span of control Work specialization

Formalization
Chain of command Departmentalization

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Types of Structures

Divisional
Simple Structure Functional Structure Organization
Structure

Matrix Organization
Virtual Organization
Structure

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Simple Structure

● A structure characterized
by a low degree of
specialization, wide spans
of control, authority
centralized in a single
person, and little
formalization

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Functional Structure
● A functional structure is a design that groups
people on the basis of their common skills,
expertise, or resources they use.
● An organization groups tasks into functions
to increase the effectiveness with which it
achieves its goals.
● Organizations develop not only more
functions but also more specialization within
functions.

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Divisional Structure
● Organizations most commonly adopt the
divisional structure to solve control
problems that arise with too many
products, regions, or customers

● The type of divisional structure depends

on the problem to be solved

● Divisional structure creates smaller, more

manageable subunits and takes the form
○ Product structure
○ Geographic structure
○ Customer structure

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Hybrid Structures

Product
Divisional President
Structure
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President President
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Matrix Structure Project President

Functional
Structure
structure
Vice Vice
● A rectangular grid that shows a Presiden Vice Presiden Vice
t, President, t, President.
vertical flow of functional Engineer Finance Producti Marketing
Project ing on
responsibility and a horizontal flow Manag
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of product responsibility Taurus
Project
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two superiors: the product team Project
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manager and the functional er, President of
Explore marketing &
manager Project
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● The team is the building block and er, Manager for
Expedit Mustang
principal coordination and ion Example of Ford Motor Company
integration mechanism

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Virtual Organizations
● A collection of geographically
distributed, functionally and/or
culturally diverse aggregations of
individuals that is linked by electronic
forms of communication

● Assembled and disassembled

according to needs

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Complete OST Make OST

Summary of actions report as per
format
presentation to
Mentor
Take the OST quiz

required by you

All relevant information on OST/course

content has been shared in a Google
classroom  

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Wish you all the very best!

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