Strategy - Organisational Structure, Style and People Issues

• Strategy before structure?
• Building the organisation’s structure: basic principles
• The choice of management style and culture
• Types of organisational structure
• Organisational structures for innovation
• Motivation and staffing in strategy implementation

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Evaluate critically the arguments that strategy and structure have a more complex relationship than that suggested by the early strengths.
• Understand the basic principles involved in designing the structure of an organisation to meet its chosen strategy.
• Evaluate the importance of changing an organisation’s management style at the same times as changing its strategy.
• Outline the six main types of organisation structure and assess their advantages and disadvantages in relation to a particular strategy.
• Develop the special organisation structures that are more likely to lead to innovative strategies.
• Explain the formal organisation needed to motivate staff and implement the chosen strategies.