Topic > The structural framework - 1072

In the book “Reframing organizations” LG Bolman and TF Deal (2013) presented the “Mintzberg five” as the essential foundation of a structural framework. And the first project on the list is a simple structure, usually used in the creation of new or startup companies. Therefore, divided only into the strategic top as owners and the operational level as employees, it falls into a flat system category. The best examples of simple leadership would probably be the small bodega shops located on almost every other street corner in New York City. However, some of the large-scale companies may become a simple structure in times of failure. In the early 1990s the International Business Machines Corp (IBM) company became a simple structure for more than a year. When the new CEO put the company into survival mode by cutting $9 billion in expenses and incorporated, as it was called, “benevolent dictatorship” – an extremely centralized and autocratic organizational style. Ergo, the strength of the structure, the simplicity and the clear responsibility saved the