Practicing Success
Read the following passage and answer the question. On Monday, an urgent meeting was called by Administrative head of ABC Ltd. The company has been witnessing various problems such as wastages of resources, ambiguity in transfer of information and inefficient Administration. Thus organisational restructuring was need of the hour. The HR manager stated that "the company needs to specify relationship between people, work and resources." Thus suggest an organisational structure based on the similar functions performed. Whereas marketing manager is of the opinion that company should be structured based on product line of the company. The meeting went for an hour and adjourned for next Monday and both the managers were called with valid justification for their claims. |
Which type of organisational structure is advocated by the HR Manager of ABC Ltd. |
Divisional Formal Functional Informal |
Functional |
The correct answer is option (3) : Functional The HR Manager of ABC Ltd is advocating for a functional organizational structure. So, the correct answer is (3) Functional The line from the passage that reflects the HR Manager's perspective on organizational structure is: "The company needs to specify the relationship between people, work, and resources. Thus suggest an organisational structure based on the similar functions performed. Whereas marketing manager is of the opinion that company should be structured based on product line of the company. |