TALL STRUCTURE: , more opportunities for promotion which can lead to greater staff motivation, staff gain more support from their line manager, there is a higher degree of supervision as each line manager has a limited number of people they are responsible for, many levels of hierarchy, span of control is narrow, and the chain of command is long, making communication slower as instructions take longer to travel through the levels of the organisation, longer lines of communication can make the firm less responsive to change, can be expensive to run due to high wage costs, FLAT STRUCTURE: , few levels of hierarchy, lines of communication are short, making the firm responsive to change and decision-making quicker, staff working in a flat management structure can be empowered to work independently and take on more responsibility, wide span of control means that tasks must be delegated, which can lead to employees feeling stressed and managers feeling overstretched, less promotion opportunities within a flat structure, which may lead to the company losing staff to other organisations,

INTERNAL STRUCTURES

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