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Chapter 8

Different organisational structures

Types of structure

Entrepreneurial Functional Divisional Matrix
 structure is built  groups together  splits  a combination

around the employees that organisation of a functional
owner manager undertake into several and a
similar tasks divisions divisional
 either product structure
based or

geographical
based

Small organisation Large organisation

It is important to be able to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each type
of structure and to be able to recommend the most appropriate structure for a given
organisation.

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