organigram

One of the key standard questions an organisational development practitioner will ask any organisation s/he will engage with is to show their organigram. An organigram will show the functions in the organisation and how they are related to each other. Sometimes the diagram shows the names of the members in the organisation, but this is not always the case. The organigrams that we see are often very hierarchical and this raises the question how much thought is given to the structure and how it relates to the strategy of the organisation. In his influential book ‘Structure in fives’, Henry Mintzberg identified [...]