Organisation Structure and Design

Abstract

In their 2007 book Organisational Behaviour: An Introductory Text (2013), David Buchanan and Andrzej Huczynski define organisation structure as ‘a formal system of task and reporting relationships that controls, co-ordinates and motivates employees so that they work together to achieve Organisational goals’. In his seminal book The Practice of Management (2007), Peter Drucker recognised the link between organisation structure and productivity: ‘Organisation structure is an indispensable means; and the wrong structure will seriously impair business performance and may even destroy it.’ In Management and Organisational Behaviour (2016), Laurie Mullins asserts that organisation structure ‘affects not only productivity and economic efficiency but also the morale and job satisfaction of the workforce’.