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List the guidelines for contingency organization design.

List the guidelines for contingency organization design.

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Kavungya
- When low cost and efficiency are the keys to successful goal achievement, organizations should use functional departmentation;
- When the environment is complex, matrix structure is effective;
- If the organization is large and operates in a stable environment; it can afford to formalize the structure;
- The greater the intensity of competition, the greater will be the degree of decentralization;
- The greater the volatility of the environment, the more decentralized and flexible the organization has to be; and
- Companies that implement the organizational style appropriate to their; strategy will be more effective than those that use an in-appropriate style
Kavungya answered the question on March 26, 2019 at 12:54

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