Entrepreneurial

Entrepreneurial

entrepreneurial
1. primary coordinating device
  1. direct supervision
    1. characteristics flow from this
      1. responsibility for coordination lies with the boss
        all power is centralised at the strategic apex
        organisation success depends on the boss
        has to read the environment and threats an opportunities is crucial
        strategic apex is important element
        no middle management
    2. face to face supervision
      1. issuing instructions and monitoring work
        limits the size of the organisation
        so how feasible is this if the organisation growns
2. division of labour
  1. uncomplicated
    1. little vertical or horizontal differentiation
      1. little formalised behaviour
        if it was not coordination would be impossible
        differentiation and formalisation equal complexity
3. no Technostructure or support staff
4. boss must attend to the environment
  1. too complicated a operating system would stretch the capabilities of the boss.
5. typical of new organisations
  1. strong leaders
    1. mould and shape organisation
      1. lot of flexibility
        not plagued with routines and rigidities
        allows felxability to adopt to circumstances.
6. advantages and disadvantages
  1. entrepreneur is in command and unites the enterprise
    1. leads workers
      1. make for flexibility
        respond quickly to change
        no long meetings
        suit dynamic environment
  2. burden of the organisation and the circumstances is borne by the boss
    1. will have limits to their capacity
      1. and to assimilate information from internal and external environment
        it works best when environmental is simple
7. structure is simple
  1. one large unit consisting of one or a few top managers
    1. one dominates
      1. group of workers who the basic work
        not formalised
        minimal use of planning liasion or training
        not standarised little use for staff analysts
        few middle managers
        co ordination done by boss
        support staff minimised to keep structure lean and flexible.
  2. must be flexible
    1. operates in a dynamic environment
      1. outsmart the bureaucracies
        environment must be simple
        as well as production system
        generally organisation is young
        time drives it towards bureaucracy
        vulnerability of simple structure cause it to fail
        if gets larger it will drive it towards bureaucracy
  3. classic small tightly controlled
    1. then can grow large
      1. can be found in public sector
        particular agencies
        sometimes under crisis conditions
        large can revert to entrepreneurial
when conditions favour the associated part of the organisation becomes prime,
1. organisation thus designs itself accordingly
Prime coordinating mechanism direct supervision with some mutual adjustment
1. key part
  1. strategic apex
    1. type of decentralisation
      1. vertical and horizontal
        low level of differentation

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	Created by Niall Dunne about 8 years ago