{"id":26686,"date":"2021-02-08T20:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T00:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=26686"},"modified":"2021-02-14T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T03:44:14","slug":"types-of-management-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/types-of-management-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Types of Management Structures: Which Is Best?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are there different types of management structures? How do you decide what management structure will work best for your company?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There three main types of management structures: functional, mission-oriented, and hybrid. You can choose the management structure that best accomplishes your goals and maximizes output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the types of management structures below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Running a Company and Types of Management Structures<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, you learned how to improve your managerial output and productivity by adjusting your activities, leverage, and time management to improve the performance of your team. Now, we\u2019ll look at how to improve the performance and output of an entire organization by effectively structuring and wielding control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As organizations grow, they have more to keep track of and they often benefit from restructuring. There are three types of management structures that you can use to structure your company:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Structure #1: Functional&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this centralized structure, <strong>individual business units are only responsible for their unit-specific tasks.<\/strong> Any function that they share with another unit (for example, human resources), is handled by a group that handles the shared function for all units.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are advantages to this structure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/advantages-of-economies-of-scale\/\">Economies of scale<\/a>.<\/strong> It\u2019s cheaper to share resources or buy in bulk. For example, Intel requires expensive computer equipment. It\u2019s more economical to buy one machine that all the business units share rather than each unit buying their own equipment and only using it occasionally.<\/li><li><strong>Shared expertise.<\/strong> Knowledge managers can share their expertise across the whole company, not just their unit, which gives them much more leverage.<\/li><li><strong>Focus.<\/strong> Business units can focus on their work rather than what they need to do their work (personnel, equipment, and so on) since dedicated departments will deal with acquiring resources.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also disadvantages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Large workloads.<\/strong> Functional groups have to meet the needs of many units.<\/li><li><strong>Bureaucracy.<\/strong> There are additional administrative layers that take time to work through.<\/li><li><strong>Resource competition.<\/strong> Since business units don\u2019t have free and unlimited access to their own resources, there\u2019s sometimes conflict over the shared resources if two units need something at the same time.<\/li><li><strong>Distance. <\/strong>Because units focus only on their work, departments such as engineering and manufacturing tend to be cut off from the marketplace because their work never requires dealing directly with customers. As a result, they lose touch with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/consumer-expectations\/\">what customers want<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Structure #2: Mission-Oriented&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is another of the types of management structures. In this decentralized structure, <strong>every individual business unit is responsible for both its unit-specific tasks and all other tasks<\/strong> that come with running a business, such as hiring, purchasing, offices, and so on<strong>.<\/strong> Each unit is responsible for its own hiring, purchasing, offices, and so on, and each unit reports to a regional office or the corporate executive office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There\u2019s only one advantage to this structure, and that\u2019s speed of responsiveness<\/strong>\u2014each unit can quickly respond to local conditions, such as bad weather that slows down delivery at one franchise location. Speed is very important\u2014the point of businesses is to respond to their environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disadvantages of this structure are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Inefficiency. <\/strong>There\u2019s redundancy between business units\u2014for example, each one has to set up its own HR department.<\/li><li><strong>Weak company-wide performance. <\/strong>Since every unit acts almost as its own company, the units are disconnected and can\u2019t easily work together.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Structure #3: Hybrid<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This structure is a combination of mission-oriented and functional.<\/strong> Ideally, it harnesses all the advantages of each system and dispenses with the disadvantages. This is one of the types of management structures that means companies can and should shift closer to and farther from each pole as they acquire new resources and adapt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For example, if a company buys a new piece of equipment, it might shift towards centralization because all the business units would benefit from it.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Grove\u2019s Law states that <strong>any large organization that has a common business purpose will ultimately move to a hybrid structure.<\/strong> This is because as businesses get bigger, they have more things to keep track of and need the advantages of a functional structure as well as those of the mission-oriented approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Example #1: Intel has four functional units (sales, technology development, administration, and manufacturing) and three business units (component, microcomputer, and system). All of the units report to the executive office.<\/li><li>Example #2: Conglomerates don\u2019t have a common business purpose, so they tend to be mission-oriented, though the companies that make up the conglomerates tend to be hybrid.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The major challenges of the hybrid structure are how to allocate resources between business units and how to handle resource-related conflicts. Middle managers are perfectly poised to solve these issues\u2014there are enough of them to manage the workload of allocation (corporate managers aren\u2019t numerous enough) and they\u2019re close to those who need the resources to know how much each unit needs (central allocators are too far away to accurately predict demand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that you know the different types of management structures you can decide what is best for your organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are there different types of management structures? 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