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Distinguish between bureaucratic and organic organisational structures. From your knowledge of structural influences on organisational behaviour, which do you think is more effective and why? In order that a firm can perform its functions effectively and achieve its objectives, it is important that the firm finds the right way to structure itself internally i.e. find the right organisational structure. The organisational structure of a firm is the way in which that particular firm is structured in terms of the way in which the different layers of that firm communicate with each other and perform its functions. There are a number of ways in which an organisation can structure itself. Two examples of this are the bureaucratic structure (role culture or mechanistic) and the organic structure. These two examples represent the two extreme polarisations in which a firm can structure itself. To have a bureaucratic structure means that the organisation will have a...

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