Due Date: 28.11.2019
Assignment Objectives:
Marks: 20
ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (PSY510) Assignment No.01
NATURE OF ORGANIZATIONS Lesson 7
Upon successful completion of this assignment, student will be able to:
Learn about different organizational structures
Understand the strengths and weakness of different organizational structures
Dear students,
Organizational structure is basically the ways in which interrelated groups of a particular organization are formed to achieve some specific goals. The organizations can be structured in a number of ways, keeping in view this fact; your task is to:
a) Explain Vertical, Flat, Virtual and Learning organization. (43=12)
b) Also, explain two strengths and two weaknesses of all these four organizational structures.
(24=8 marks)
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