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             Two Types of Organizational structure:
             Physical Structure and Social Structure
             In these days of increasing international competition, many organizations are strategically positioning themselves to take advantage of opportunities around the world. An organization that desires to move beyond a purely domestic orientation to operate on a multinational or even a global scale will confront the need for structural adaptation. So organization structure becomes especially important for a company. In my essay, I will begin with defining what an organization structure is, then I will move to talk about the social structure, next I will present the physical structure, finally I turn attention to the relationship between them.
             An organization is a group of people working together to achieve common goals (Robbins 2000). Structure refers to the relationship among the parts of an organized (Blan 1971). For example, a building is a structure of relationships between its foundation, frame, roof, and walls. The human body is also a structure; it consists of relationship between bones, organs, blood, and tissue. Organization structure is a system of tasks, reporting and authority relationships within which the work of the organization is done (Haga 1981). Thus, structure defines the forms and functions of the organization's activities. Structure also defines how the parts of an organization fit together. The purpose of organization structure is to order and coordinate the actions of employees, so as to achieve organization goals. The process of developing and organization structure is organization design (Bartol 2001). Organization structure can be divided into two parts: social structure, physical structure.
             Social structure refers to relationship among social elements including people, position, and the organizational units to which they belong (Hatch 1990). We could trace back several years ago, the famous German sociologist, Max Weber
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