Organizational Design Decisions (cont. Contingency Factors (cont.) Environmental Uncertainty and Structure one way to reduce environmental uncertainty is to adjust the organization's structure -with greater stability,mechanistic structures are more effective >>mechanistic structures are not equipped to respond to rapid environmental change -the greater the uncertainty,the greater the need for an organic structure >organizations are being designed to be more organic nowadays ©Prentice Hall,2002 10-24Organizational Design Decisions (cont.) Contingency Factors (cont.) – Environmental Uncertainty and Structure • one way to reduce environmental uncertainty is to adjust the organization’s structure – with greater stability, mechanistic structures are more effective »mechanistic structures are not equipped to respond to rapid environmental change – the greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for an organic structure »organizations are being designed to be more organic nowadays © Prentice Hall, 2002 10-24