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Title: Organizational Structure


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Organizational Structure
  • A Quick, Informal Overview

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Todays Agenda
  • Why we are here, hopes and outcomes for the day
  • Brief introduction to organizational structure 
  • Library roles and functions  
  • Converging and diverging departments

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Organizational Structure
  • Organizational structure refers to the formalized
    arrangement of interaction between and
    responsibility for the tasks, people, and
    resources in an organization
  • Communication, duties, decision-making
  • It is most often seen as a chart, often a
    pyramidal chart, with positions or titles and
    roles in cascading fashion

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Simple Organizational Structure
  • CEO/Manager and a few employees
  • Arrangement of communication, responsibilities,
    and tasks is informal and through direct
    supervision
  • Commons to most businesses in this country
  • Can be very demanding on the owner-manager

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Types of Structures
  • Functional
  • Divisional
  • Matrix
  • Hierarchical or Flat
  • Strategic Business Unit

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Functional Organizational Structure
  • Tasks, people, and technologies necessary to do
    the work of an organization are divided into
    separate functional groups (such as marketing,
    operations, and finance)
  • Increasingly formal procedures for coordinating
    and integrating their activities to provide the
    products and services
  • Can improve efficiency
  • Challenges communication

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Functional Organization Structures
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Divisional Organizational Structure
  • A set of autonomous or self-supporting units, or
    divisions, are governed by a central office but
    where each operating division has its own
    functional specialists who provide products or
    services different from those of other divisions
  • Expedites decision making in response to varied
    environments
  • Challenges communication

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Divisional Organization Structure
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Strategic Business Unit
  • An adaptation of the divisional or functional
    structure whereby various divisions or parts of
    divisions are grouped together based on some
    common strategic elements, usually linked to
    distinct product / market differences

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Matrix Organization Structure
  • One in which functional and staff personnel are
    assigned to both a basic functional area and to a
    project or manager
  • Intended to make the best use of talented people
    by combining the advantages of functional
    specialization and service or project
    specialization

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Matrix Organization Structure
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Trends Affecting Libraries
  • _at_ UTC
  • Staffing and decision-making
  • Positive, responsive, agile services,
    collections, policies
  • Internet , cloud, mobile, etc
  • Access versus ownership and physical versus
    electronic
  • Emphasis on patron space, not book storage, and
    convenience

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Why Look to Improve Structures
  • Enhance communication
  • Enhance support and coordination
  • Balance the demand for control and autonomy, with
    the need for coordination and integration
  • Create a flexible, responsive organization
  • Enhance support to strategic, critical activities

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Boundaries, Limit, Challenges
  • Horizontal boundaries
  • between different departments or functions in a
    firm.
  • Vertical boundaries
  • between operations and management, and levels of
    management, between corporate and division
  • Our personalities (also a strength!)
  • Money , time, staff size
  • External impacts
  • between a company and its customers, suppliers,
    partners, regulators, and competitors

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Lots of options
  • Teams - Networks - Virtual
  • Upside or circular organizational chart
  • Puts patrons at the top or center of any chart
  • Put faculty and staff closer to the top or center
    of any chart
  • Puts management at the bottom or at the edge of
    any organizational chart

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Sample Organizational Chart
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Another example
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Another example
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Public Library example
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Big Library example
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Todays Agenda
  • Why we are here, hopes and outcomes for the day
  • Brief introduction to organizational structure 
  • Library roles and functions  
  • Converging and diverging departments
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