Organizations by Kühl Stefan;

Author:Kühl, Stefan;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

The Formal Structures of an Organization

As a concept, structure is elusive. A politician who speaks of reforming the “tax structure” would like to say that something fundamental has to change, but is trying to avoid stating how the future tax load on citizens will be reduced—if at all. When the police take action against members of a revolutionary group, protesters react with cries of discrimination against “leftist structures,” but nobody takes the trouble to explain who or what is actually the object of such discrimination. Basketball coaches wholeheartedly proclaim that their central goal is to “create structures to ensure that the club’s likelihood of success increases in the future,” while leaving us in the dark as to exactly what they plan to change.

Thus, the concept of structure seems well suited as a means of exploiting intellectual loopholes. It is frequently used when a more precise concept doesn’t exist, or when people are too lazy to find one. We have some notion of what is implied by the term organizational structures, namely, the relatively lasting patterns of order within organizations and the mechanisms that are used to create them “over the long term.” While it seems difficult to cast the concept of structure in precise terms, the definition is simple.

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