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Ch 7 2.2 Organizational structure: complete notes
Neat, exam-ready notebook-style notes for Ch 7 2.2 Organizational structure, following the IB Diploma syllabus, SL and HL. This chapter is part of the complete Business Management Notes for IB Diploma Students (SL and HL): All 36 Topics.
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A quick look at the chapter from our IB Diploma Business Studies notes. The full chapter notes have the detailed explanations, diagrams and practice questions with answers.
Topics in this chapter
- What you must be able to do
- Why organizations need a structure AO2
- Delegation, bureaucracy and the location of decisions AO2
- Delayering and matrix structure AO2
- Matrix structure
- Organization charts AO2 · AO4
- Ways of grouping: function, product, region
- Is the structure still appropriate? Changes in external factors AO3
- Changes in organizational structures AO3
- Business management tools in this topic
“I can” checklist: what you must be able to do
- I can define and apply delegation, span of control, levels of hierarchy, chain of command and bureaucracy.
- I can explain centralization, decentralization, delayering and matrix structure with their benefits and drawbacks.
- I can read and construct flat, tall, and function, product and region organization charts.
- I can calculate spans, numbers of managers, savings from delayering and payback.
- I can evaluate whether a structure is appropriate after a change in external factors.
- HL: I can evaluate project-based organization and Handy's shamrock organization.
What is inside the full chapter notes
- Concept notes with 6 worked examples (all numbers checked)
- Diagrams: tall and flat charts, delayering, matrix, shamrock
- Tools: organization chart, descriptive statistics, STEEPLE, force field (HL)
- Common mistakes and a command-term "How to score" box
- 12 Quick-check questions, explained
- Paper 1 style case, Section A and a 10-mark Section B question with mark schemes
- Paper 2 style data question with an HL extension
- Quick reference sheet and "I can" checklist
What you get in the pack
- All 36 topics of IB Diploma Business Management for students taking Standard Level or Higher Level (first assessment 2024): what a business is, business entities, objectives, stakeholders, growth, multinationals, human resource management, organizational structure, leadership, motivation, culture, communication, industrial relations, sources of finance, costs and revenues, final accounts, ratio analysis, cash flow, investment appraisal, budgets, marketing planning, sales forecasting, market research, the seven Ps, international marketing, operations methods, lean production, location, break-even analysis, crisis management, research and development, management information systems
- Every syllabus statement covered in order, each marked SL or HL, with clear notes, tables and diagrams drawn for these notes
- Worked examples in every topic: calculations and model answers that show how to earn the marks
- Quick-check multiple-choice questions with explained answers, plus original Paper 1 (case study), Paper 2 (quantitative) and, for HL, Paper 3 (social enterprise) style questions with full mark schemes (no past-paper reprints)
- Common mistakes and a how-to-score command-term guide for every topic
- Quick-reference sheet and an "I can" checklist at the end of every topic
- Colour PDF and a black and white copy of every chapter for printing
- Independent notes for IB Diploma students; not endorsed by or affiliated with the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO)
All chapters in this pack
- Ch 1 1.1-1.2 The nature of business and types of business entity
- Ch 2 1.3 Business objectives
- Ch 3 1.4 Stakeholders
- Ch 4 1.5 Growth and evolution
- Ch 5 1.6 Multinational companies (MNCs)
- Ch 6 2.1 Introduction to human resource management
- Ch 7 2.2 Organizational structure
- Ch 8 2.3 Leadership and management
- Ch 9 2.4 Motivation and demotivation
- Ch 10 2.5 Organizational (corporate) culture (HL)
- Ch 11 2.6 Communication
- Ch 12 2.7 Industrial and employee relations (HL)
- Ch 13 3.1 Introduction to finance
- Ch 14 3.2 Sources of finance
- Ch 15 3.3 Costs and revenues
- Ch 16 3.4 Final accounts
- Ch 17 3.5 Profitability and liquidity ratio analysis
- Ch 18 3.6 Efficiency ratio analysis (HL)
- Ch 19 3.7 Cash flow
- Ch 20 3.8 Investment appraisal
- Ch 21 3.9 Budgets (HL)
- Ch 22 4.1 Introduction to marketing
- Ch 23 4.2 Marketing planning
- Ch 24 4.3 Sales forecasting (HL)
- Ch 25 4.4 Market research
- Ch 26 4.5 The seven Ps of the marketing mix
- Ch 27 4.6 International marketing (HL)
- Ch 28 5.1 Introduction to operations management
- Ch 29 5.2 Operations methods
- Ch 30 5.3 Lean production and quality management (HL)
- Ch 31 5.4 Location
- Ch 32 5.5 Break-even analysis
- Ch 33 5.6 Production planning (HL)
- Ch 34 5.7 Crisis management and contingency planning (HL)
- Ch 35 5.8 Research and development (HL)
- Ch 36 5.9 Management information systems (HL)