Organizational Analysis Four Frame Overview
... (Princeton University, 2003)¡¦ All profit and non-profit organizations are based on four frames of reference. ... The structural frame emphasizes roles, formal relationships and the systems and communications that support them. Often, the typical organizational chart tries to tell you what it is supposed to look like! ... The human resource frame, based on modern psychology, sees the organization as an extended family of interdependent relationships, individuals with needs, feelings, prejudices, skills and limitations. ... Every organization has a political frame. ... The symbolic frame is stronger as the organization gets older. ... ¡§Organizational Structure is the formal system of task and authority relationship that control how people coordinate their action and use resources to achieve organizational goals.¡¨ (Jones 2004, p8) The Structural Frame views an organization as a bureaucracy or a Factory. Key words that describe the Structural Frame are coordination, control, policies and procedures, planning, budgeting, evaluation. A manager or leader working within the structural frame would be analytical, a logical thinker, someone who was organized and concerned about systems management. ... Organizations allocate responsibilities to participants (division of labor) and create rules, policies, procedures, and hierarchical organizational charts to coordinate diverse activities. ... org 2003) Six assumptions undergird the structural frame: Bolman & Deal (2003) ƒÜ Organizations exist to achieve established goals and objectives. ... ƒÜ Appropriate forms of coordination and control are essential to ensuring that individuals and units work together in the service of organizational goals. ... Mintzberg (1979) differentiated five major components in organizational structure: the strategic apex, the middle management, the operating core, the technostructure, and the support staff. Different configurations of these components lead to different organizational forms: simple structure, machine bureaucracy, professional bureaucracy, divisionalized form, and adhocracy. Organizations must constantly adjust their structures to adapt to the environment shifts, technology changes, organizational grow, and leadership changes. ... The book illustrates four structures for teams: one-boss arrangement, dual-authority arrangement, simple-hierarchy arrangement, and the all-channel arrangement or star network. Borman & Deal (2003) illustrates four structures for teams: one-boss arrangement, dual-authority arrangement, simple-hierarchy arrangement, and the all-channel arrangement or star network. ... The Human Resource Frame puts ¡¥people first¡¦. Within this frame, employees are seen as a primary resource. ... This frame is sometimes described as a Family.