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Mintzberg- Organizational structure

Mintzberg Simple organizational structures have characteristic of low degree of differentiation of subtasks and the leaders have wide variety of control. The authority is highly centralized in hand of single person. Sometime the simple organization is also known as, “Flat Structure”. This type of structure has only 2-3 vertical level and worker who can perform different kind of works. William Hewlett and David Packard began their business in a garage, and in starting they follow simple organisational structure. Start up generally follows this type of structure. For routine or repetitive work, Machine Bureaucracy is the best model for the organisation. A key challenge is how to motivate and satisfy the workers in the operating core and repetitive work. For example, company like McDonalds adopt this model to manufacturer Hamburger. Mc Donald’s company give stress on consistency and uniformity of the repetitive work. Mature company generally follow the professional bureaucr