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Discuss The Strengths and Weaknesses of Decentralised Decision Making. Under what Circumstances Might it be an Advantage for an Organisation to Have Decentralised Decision-Making?
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Discuss The Strengths and Weaknesses of Decentralised Decision Making. Under what Circumstances Might it be an Advantage for an Organisation to Have Decentralised Decision-Making? Are organisations becoming more centralised or more decentralised? Various industries have been wrestling with this issue for decades. Centralised organisations rely on a governance structure where information management reports up through a single chain of command. Decentralised organisations, on the other hand, distribute the management of information through a multitude of functional and regional command chains. According to a recent Cutter Consortium survey, most large organisations utilise either a centralised or a combination of centralised and decentralised governance structures. Typical characteristics of a centralised structure of decision making, or governance within an organisation would be an autocratic structure, because everyone ids answerable to the `boss`. This brings advantages to the organisation in terms of focus and clarity of purpose; everyone is likely to know the company's goals and...
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