This week’s topics
Organisational Structures in Logistics
- Functional and divisional structures
- Matrix operational models
- Centralised versus decentralised dispatching
- Structural alignment with workflows
- Lecture 15: TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
- Lecture 37: Designing Organizational Structure: Specialization and Coordination
- Organisation Structure: Matrix Structure
What you will be able to do
- 2.3 Compare different ways a logistics business could be structured.
- 2.4 Discuss how functional relationships impact on how a logistic business is structured.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: compare different ways a logistics business could be structured.
Study materials
Videos
- Organisation Structure: Matrix Structure · YouTube · Galton College · 9 min · for registered students
- CIMA E1 Organisational Structure · YouTube · OpenTuition · 38 min · for registered students
- What is Organizational Design? | From A Business Professor · YouTube · Business School 101 · 6 min · for registered students
- Organizational Structure · YouTube · Alexander Lyon Communication Coach · 5 min · for registered students
- Centralisation and Decentralisation · YouTube · tutor2u · 10 min · for registered students
- Organisational Structures Explained · YouTube · Two Teachers · 8 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Introduction to Business 2e, ch. 7.1–7.2: Organisational structures · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 219–226 · for registered students
- Principles of Management, ch. 10.1: Organisational structures and design · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 272–277 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
