• Identify the factors that influence an organization’s structure
• Discuss the interrelationships of a variety of organizational structures (e.g., line, line and staff, and functional)
• Describe line versus staff departments and the authority relationship between them
• Describe the effects of group dynamics on group decision making and consensus building
• Analyze organizational structures
• Compare divisional and departmental structures (e.g., customer, geographic, and product)
• Compare organizational structures (e.g., organic, matrix, and mechanistic)
• Describe the evolution of organizational structure as a company changes due to internal and external forces (e.g., size, age, strategies, and environment)