Formal and Informal Organizational Structures: Types and Charts
Formal and Informal Organizational Structures
Organizations can be classified as formal or informal.
Formal Organization
A formal organization has an intentional structure that is defined and identified. The company strategically places each of its elements in the most convenient location. It’s a structure to which people must conform, with each part of the company cooperating to achieve predetermined objectives.
Organizational Structure
The structure for the organization of the company must consider
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Administration
Administration is the scientific discipline, technique, and art that studies organizations. Its objectives are to discover and understand an organization’s functioning and behavior, predict its actions, influence its behavior, and manage its development. The objects of administration are the organizations themselves, their study, containment, and management.
Branches of Government
- Public Administration: Studies the public sector.
- Financial Administration: Studies the origins and financial
European Commission: Structure, Powers, and History
The European Commission: An Overview
The European Commission is the executive and bureaucratic arm of the EU. It is responsible for generating new laws and policies, overseeing their implementation, managing the EU budget, representing the EU in international negotiations, and promoting the interests of the EU as a whole. The core responsibility of the Commission is to be the guardian of the treaties, ensuring that EU policies are advanced in light of the treaties. Headquartered in Brussels, the
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Public Health Services: An Introduction
Public Health Services are aimed at the general population and specific groups. Their function is the planning, prevention, control, and public health promotion. These services remain important for society but often go unnoticed, with awareness only increasing during crises (e.g., mad cow disease, avian flu).
Key Activities of Public Health Services
The activities developed by Public Health Services include, broadly:
- Health protection (establishing rules governing
Sales Management: Roles, Responsibilities, and Key Qualities
Lesson 4: Introduction to Sales Management
1. Sales Force Management
The attainment of sales force goals in an effective and efficient manner through planning, staffing, training, leading, and controlling organizational resources.
Definition from the American Marketing Association: Sales management means the planning, direction, and control of personal selling, including recruiting, selecting, equipping, assigning, routing, supervising, paying, and motivating as these tasks apply to the personal sales
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What is strategy? How do you define it?
- Continuous adaptation to changes and dynamics in the environment.
- The set of actions directed towards a specific objective. The result of the competition.
- The sum of a and b.
How are capabilities defined in a company?
The ability or competence to develop tasks successfully.
The flagship products of the Boston Consulting Group:
They have large financial needs to be covered.
Which are the 2 axes of the McKinsey and General Electric matrix?
Market appeal and competitive
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