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Essay / The structural framework - 1072
In the book “Reframing Organizations”, LG Bolman and TF Deal (2013) presented the “Mintzberg five” as the essential foundation of a structural framework. And the very first template on the list is a simple structure, usually used in creating new businesses or startups. Thus, divided only between the strategic top as owners and the operational level as employees, it falls into a flat system category. Probably the best examples of simple leadership would be the small bodegas located on almost every street corner in New York City. However, some of the large-scale businesses could become a simple structure in times of bankruptcy. In depth, in the early 1990s, International Business Machines Corp (IBM) became a simple structure for more than a year. When the newly hired CEO put the company into survival mode by cutting expenses by $9 billion and incorporating, as it was called, “benevolent dictatorship” – an extremely centralized and autocratic organizational style. Ergo, the solidity of the structure, the simplicity and clarity of responsibilities saved the