The Role Of Strategic Direction In Organizational design Assignment-1

1. THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC DIRECTION IN
ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
RA1952001020107
R.S.SIVA SANKARI
MBA -B
Assignment-1

2. ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
 Organization Design is a process for shaping the way organizations are structured
and run.
 It involves many different aspects of life at work, including team formations, shift
patterns, lines of reporting, decision-making procedures, communication channels,
and more.
 Organization Design – and redesign – can help any type of organization to achieve its
goals. Sometimes, a large-scale reorganization is necessary. At other points, more
subtle shifts in structures and systems can ensure that an organization continues to
thrive.

3. STRATEGIC DIRECTION
 Strategic direction is a set of actions to achieve set goals in an organization's strategy. It's
a management issue.
 “Strategic direction” refers to the actions you are taking to achieve the goals of your
organizational strategy. Some companies use a “vision statement” or “mission statement”
to define where the company wants to be, but in short, this statement is a way for the
company to set the direction that the company wants to go, and define what it wants to
be in the future.Your strategic direction includes the plans and actions you have put in
place to work toward this vision of the future for your company.

4. THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC DIRECTION IN ORGANIZATIONAL
DESIGN

5. ROLES:
The primary responsibility of top management is to determine an organization's goals,
strategy and design, therein adapting the organization to a changing environment.
 Direction settings begins with an assessment of opportunities and threats in the
environment and an evaluation of internal strengths and weaknesses.
Then the company can determine its mission, goals and strategies.
 Organizational design reflects the way goals and strategies are implemented
 Performance measurements feed back into the environment, so that past performance of
the organization assessed by top management in setting new goals and strategies for the
future.
 Choices that top management make about goals, strategy and organizational design have
a huge impact on organizational effectiveness.

6. HOW STRATEGIES AFFECT ORGANIZATIONAL
DESIGN
 Design must support the firm’s competitive approach. For example, if the
organization uses the low-cost leadership or defender strategy, the design
should be focused on efficiency, whereas if the organization uses the
differentiation or prospector strategy, the design calls for a learning
organizational structure with strong horizontal coordination mechanisms to
increase collaboration and teamwork

7. HOW STRATEGIES AFFECT ORGANIZATIONAL
DESIGN

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