This week the class was interesting. We talked about different models of organizations. This was my comparison of how the military is organized.
"The Fayol theory fits our military in these ways:
The military has a strict order of management, each soldier is not supposed to report to more than one superior.
The day to day matters are reserved for the lower level soldiers this way the upper level officers can handle the more serious matters.
The military also stresses not having more soldiers than a ranking soldier can handle.
There is an extensive “departmentalization” within the military. This is where every soldier is grouped together with soldiers with near identical skills. They even take this so far to build a great sense of pride being categorized with your fellow likewise skilled soldiers. Most soldiers will have an arm badge representing their skill and particular unit.
The military follows the Fayol theory is there is a distinct line between the soldiers responsible for organization and soldiers responsible to give advice and support. This would be the separation between a commissioned officer and an enlisted soldier. "
Within an organization it can completely depend on what the objectives are to determine how it should be organized. The organization must decide to what extent the information will flow vertical and how great of a span it will flow horizontally. I use the military as my example because it does a great job at representing the horizontal line, and also does fairly well horizontally. For example in the military the Air-force will sometimes have a solider who's primary job is to be part of an Army unit, just in case there is a need to call in heavy air support.
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