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Work-flow design is the process of analyzing the tasks necessary for the production of a product or service, prior to allocating and assigning these tasks to particular job category or person.

Organization structure refers to the relatively stable and formal network of vertical and horizontal interconnections among jobs that constitute the organization.

Work-Flow anaysis
  1. Analyzing work outputs
  2. Analyzing work processes
  3. Analyzing work inputs

    -Raw materials consist of the materials that will be converted into the work unit's product.
    -Equipmeng refers to the technology and machinery necessary to transform the raw meterials into the product.
    -The final inputs in the work-flow process are the human skills and efforts necessary to perform to the tasks.( Human skills consist of the workers available to the company, but increasingly organizations are recruiting the inputs of customers as  a critical input or designing process and products)

Organization Structure
    1. Dimensions of Structure:
      a) Centralizatoin:degree to which decision-making authority resides at the top of the organizational chart.
      b) Departmentalization: Degree to which work units are grouped based on functional similarity or similarity of work flow.
    2.Structural configurations
      a) functional structure
      b) divisional structure( "self-cannibalize" if the gains achieved in one unit come at the expense of another unit)
      c) geographic structure
      d) client structure

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