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Organisational design

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, organisational design means: The deliberate arrangement of roles, structures and coordination mechanisms to support an organisation's goals.

In Turkish: organizasyon tasarımı

How it is used

Use for decisions about how work fits together, including reporting, interfaces and levels of authority.

Example sentences

  1. Our organisational design review examined why three departments were approving the same request.

    The problem concerns coordination and role boundaries, not one person's effort.

  2. The merger required organisational design work before new job titles were announced.

    Choosing a coherent arrangement comes before naming positions within it.

Common collocations

  • organisational design principles
  • review organisational design
  • span of controlThe number of people who report directly to one manager. A wide span means many direct reports; a narrow span means only a few.
  • org chartA diagram that shows how an organisation is structured, with boxes for roles or people and lines showing who reports to whom.

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