After your team has drawn the organization chart, discuss the following:

a. What type of organizational structure does your chart depict? Is it a bureaucratic, matrix, cluster, or network structure? Why?

b. How does KDS use departmentalization?

c. To what extent is authority in the company centralized or decentralized?

d. What is the span of management within KDS?

e. Which positions are line positions and which are staff?

Why?

An organization chart is a diagram showing how employees and tasks are grouped and how the lines of communication and authority flow within an organization. These charts can look very different depending on a number of factors, including the nature and size of the business, the way it is departmentalized, its patterns of delegating authority, and its span of management.