... namely, entrepreneurial, machine, professional, diversified, innovative, missionary and political. He found them to be based on key parts of the organisation, type of decentralisation and their co-coordinating method. All these authors identified the structure of organisation as characterised by not only particular parts but also their horizontal and vertical relationships. The three researchers Lawrence and Lorsch, Drazin and Van de Ven and Mintzberg agreed that the structure of an organisation is vital to the performance of the organisation. This would mean that the structure of the management team would certainly affect its performance. They also agree that two basic features of a structure of an organisation are its width as indicated by spans of control, and its height as indicated by the levels of decentralisation. From the above observations, researchers put forward that the change in the organisational structure, through its shape in terms of width and height, would affect organisational performance, ...

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